From the day
On the date
Friday, March 7, 1980
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The Headlines
3 Food Chains Freeze Some Prices, Heeding White House Appeal; Giant Foods Also Acts 3 Food Chains Freeze Some Prices After U.S. Plea
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen
#1 at the box office
All That Jazz
$1,144,802
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
You Share a Birthday With
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785)
- Maurice Ravel (1875)
- Tomáš Masaryk (1850)
- Rachel Weisz (1970)
- John Herschel (1792)
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
16,891 days ago
(46 years, 101 days)