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On the date
Saturday, April 4, 1981
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The Headlines
U.S. AVIATION PIONEER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rapture
Blondie
#1 at the box office
Hardly Working
$4,160,193
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Maya Angelou (1928)
- Robert Downey Jr. (1965)
- Heath Ledger (1979)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (1932)
- Caracalla (188)
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
16,498 days ago
(45 years, 73 days)