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Saturday, February 23, 1980
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The Headlines
U.S. Defeats Soviet Squad In Olympic Hockey by 4-3; U.S. Six Turns Back Soviet Squad by 4-3 'Born to Be a Player' Russian-Based Attack Holding Goes Unnoticed Soviet Goalie Replaced
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen
#1 at the box office
Cruising
$1,229,186
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
On This Day
Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Naruhito (1960)
- George Frideric Handel (1685)
- Viktor Yushchenko (1954)
- Karl Jaspers (1883)
- Kazimir Malevich (1878)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
Fax Machine Boom, Pac-Man & Flash Memory.
Style of 1980
Silhouette: Oversized inverted triangle
Material: Lycra and sequins
- Shoulder pads
- Perms
- Neon accessories
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
16,904 days ago
(46 years, 114 days)