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Thursday, April 23, 1981
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The Headlines
News Summary; THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981
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
Excalibur
$3,144,818
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Max Planck (1858)
- James Buchanan (1791)
- Halldór Laxness (1902)
- John Cena (1977)
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
16,479 days ago
(45 years, 54 days)