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Tuesday, June 16, 1981
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The Headlines
OIL TAX IN NEW YORK AIDING MASS TRANSIT UPSET BY U.S. COURT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Medley: Intro 'Venus'/Sugar, Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Stars on 45
Stars on 45
#1 at the box office
Superman II
$14,100,523
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Adam Smith (1723)
- Tupac Shakur (1971)
- Barbara McClintock (1902)
- Jürgen Klopp (1967)
- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1929)
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
16,425 days ago
(45 years, 0 days)