From the day
On the date
Tuesday, March 11, 1980
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The Headlines
Columbia's 'Lost' Scholar Still a Nantucket Mystery; 'Lost' Woman On Nantucket: Is Case Hoax? Large Grocery Purchase Brother Arrives Concerned 'Very Hard to Understand' Suicide Theory Advanced
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
- Douglas Adams (1952)
- Harold Wilson (1916)
- Qasem Soleimani (1957)
- Torquato Tasso (1544)
- Rupert Murdoch (1931)
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
16,888 days ago
(46 years, 98 days)