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Saturday, September 5, 1981
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The Headlines
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY PERVADES LIF E IN JAPAN
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
$5,406,403
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Freddie Mercury (1946)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Michael Keaton (1951)
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
16,344 days ago
(44 years, 284 days)