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Wednesday, May 5, 1982
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The Headlines
News Summary; WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1982
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Chariots of Fire
Vangelis
#1 at the box office
Porky's
$3,393,114
The must-have
My Little Pony
You Share a Birthday With
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846)
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921)
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747)
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
16,102 days ago
(44 years, 42 days)