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Thursday, February 5, 1981
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The Headlines
CUOMO IS ENJOYING HIS STAY IN PRO TEM ROOM AT THE TOP
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Celebration
Kool & the Gang
#1 at the box office
Fort Apache, The Bronx
$4,565,000
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Operation Soap: The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force raids four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, arresting just under 300, triggering mass protest and rallies.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Charlotte Rampling (1946)
- Abhishek Bachchan (1976)
- William S. Burroughs (1914)
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Robert Hofstadter (1915)
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
16,556 days ago
(45 years, 131 days)