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Thursday, April 9, 1981
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The Headlines
OWNERS STILL GAMBLE ON ESQUIRE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Kiss on My List
Daryl Hall and John Oates
#1 at the box office
Star Wars (reissue)
$6,549,751
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing two Japanese sailors.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Charles Baudelaire (1821)
- Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
- Hugh Hefner (1926)
- Elias Lönnrot (1802)
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
16,493 days ago
(45 years, 68 days)