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Saturday, August 22, 1981
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The Headlines
STUDY FINDS WARMING TREND THAT COULD RAISE SEA LEVELS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Endless Love
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
#1 at the box office
Raiders of the Lost Ark
$4,183,784
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Deng Xiaoping (1904)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Ray Bradbury (1920)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
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
16,358 days ago
(44 years, 298 days)