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Thursday, October 15, 1981
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The Headlines
TWO RADAR PLANES ARE SENT TO EGYPT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
Christopher Cross
#1 at the box office
Paternity
$2,442,503
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Michel Foucault (1926)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931)
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
16,304 days ago
(44 years, 244 days)