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Friday, June 5, 1981
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The Headlines
CRIMMINS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER AS THE JURY ACCEPTS HIS CONFESSION
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Bette Davis Eyes
Kim Carnes
#1 at the box office
Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams
$8,153,738
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
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You Share a Birthday With
- John Maynard Keynes (1883)
- Federico García Lorca (1898)
- Mark Wahlberg (1971)
- Dennis Gabor (1900)
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1942)
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
16,436 days ago
(45 years, 11 days)