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Tuesday, August 25, 1981
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The Headlines
A RICH ERA IN THE STUDY OF PLANETS DRAWS TO A CLOSE
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
$3,909,879
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Sean Connery (1930)
- Ivan the Terrible (1530)
- Johann Gottfried Herder (1744)
- Erich Honecker (1912)
- Tim Burton (1958)
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
16,355 days ago
(44 years, 295 days)