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Monday, February 1, 1982
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The Headlines
INQUIRY PRESSED INTO KILLING OF 4 LINKED TO DRUGS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Centerfold
The J. Geils Band
#1 at the box office
On Golden Pond
$4,900,463
The must-have
My Little Pony
On This Day
The Intel 80286 is released, which introduced protected mode memory. The IBM PC/AT and its clones used this CPU.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Boris Yeltsin (1931)
- Clark Gable (1901)
- Leymah Gbowee (1972)
- John Ford (1894)
- Langston Hughes (1902)
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
Compact Disc (CD), Commodore 64 & Adobe PostScript.
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
16,195 days ago
(44 years, 135 days)