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Friday, December 11, 1981
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The Headlines
REAGAN REQUESTS AMERICANS TO QUIT LIBYA IMMEDIATELY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Physical
Olivia Newton-John
#1 at the box office
Rollover
$2,260,889
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
On This Day
El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
- Hector Berlioz (1803)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Max Born (1882)
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
16,247 days ago
(44 years, 187 days)