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Thursday, January 15, 1981
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The Headlines
OIL-EXPORT RISE BY IRAN IS REPORTED
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
(Just Like) Starting Over
John Lennon
#1 at the box office
9 to 5
$6,014,902
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929)
- Molière (1622)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809)
- Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850)
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
IBM PC, MS-DOS & Space Shuttle.
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
16,577 days ago
(45 years, 152 days)