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On the date
Friday, September 5, 1980
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The Headlines
2d Shuttle Flight Service Expected in Few Months; 2d Shuttle Seen Soon Flights by Early 1981 Indicated Permission for 40 Landings
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Upside Down
Diana Ross
#1 at the box office
Smokey and the Bandit II
$820,196
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
On This Day
The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Freddie Mercury (1946)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Michael Keaton (1951)
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
16,709 days ago
(45 years, 284 days)