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On the date
Sunday, February 1, 1981
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The Headlines
OLDER CITIES CONTINUE POPULATION SLIDE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Celebration
Kool & the Gang
#1 at the box office
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
$4,279,264
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
The Underarm bowling incident of 1981 occurred when Trevor Chappell bowls underarm on the final delivery of a game between Australia and New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Boris Yeltsin (1931)
- Clark Gable (1901)
- Leymah Gbowee (1972)
- John Ford (1894)
- Langston Hughes (1902)
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
16,560 days ago
(45 years, 135 days)