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Wednesday, March 11, 1981
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The Headlines
REAGAN TO SEEK JOB REQUIREMENT TIED TO WELFARE FOR UP TO 800,000
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
9 to 5
Dolly Parton
#1 at the box office
Back Roads
$3,046,339
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Douglas Adams (1952)
- Harold Wilson (1916)
- Qasem Soleimani (1957)
- Torquato Tasso (1544)
- Rupert Murdoch (1931)
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
16,522 days ago
(45 years, 97 days)