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On the date
Thursday, August 14, 1980
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The Headlines
New Respect for Remainders; New Respect Greets Book Remainders Their Own Best-Seller List 'The Public Is Often Fickle' When a Writer Gets Nothing Thinly Sliced Profit Margin
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Magic
Olivia Newton-John
#1 at the box office
Smokey and the Bandit II
$1,860,800
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
On This Day
Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Galsworthy (1867)
- Halle Berry (1966)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
- Pope Pius VII (1742)
- Magic Johnson (1959)
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
16,731 days ago
(45 years, 306 days)