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Monday, September 21, 1981
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The Headlines
'SOFT SPOTS' ARE SEEN BY HAIG AMONG FOES OF SAUDI AWACS DEAL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Endless Love
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
#1 at the box office
Mommie Dearest
$4,667,761
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia →Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- H. G. Wells (1866)
- Shinzo Abe (1954)
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909)
- Stephen King (1947)
- Leonard Cohen (1934)
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
16,328 days ago
(44 years, 268 days)