From the day
On the date
Sunday, November 8, 1981
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The Headlines
ACCESSIBILITY A GOAL OF NEW CHIEF JUDGE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Private Eyes
Daryl Hall and John Oates
#1 at the box office
Time Bandits
$6,507,356
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
Aeroméxico Flight 110 crashes near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Alain Delon (1935)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
- Bram Stoker (1847)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900)
- Edmond Halley (1656)
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
16,280 days ago
(44 years, 220 days)