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On the date
Thursday, July 24, 1980
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The Headlines
Engineers Enter Reactor Building
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
Billy Joel
#1 at the box office
Airplane!
$2,096,358
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
On This Day
The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the swimming event at Olympic level.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Simón Bolívar (1783)
- Alexandre Dumas (1802)
- Jennifer Lopez (1969)
- Amelia Earhart (1897)
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
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
16,752 days ago
(45 years, 327 days)