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On the date
Saturday, May 1, 1982
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The Headlines
BRITISH WARSHIPS BEGIN BLOCKADE AROUND ISLANDS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
#1 at the box office
Porky's
$4,333,570
The must-have
My Little Pony
On This Day
Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
16,106 days ago
(44 years, 46 days)