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Thursday, April 30, 1981
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The Headlines
OIL BOOM AROUSES HOPE IN RURAL LOUISIANA
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Morning Train (Nine to Five)
Sheena Easton
#1 at the box office
Friday the 13th Part 2
$6,420,784
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
- António Guterres (1949)
- Stephen Harper (1959)
- Carl XVI Gustaf (1946)
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
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
16,473 days ago
(45 years, 48 days)