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Thursday, June 24, 1982
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The Headlines
U.S.-CITY TASK FORCE ARRESTS 303 CRIMINALS IN 10-WEEK EFFORT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Ebony and Ivory
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
#1 at the box office
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial †
$13,729,552
The must-have
My Little Pony
On This Day
"The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 009 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ambrose Bierce (1842)
- Claudia Sheinbaum (1962)
- Victor Hess (1883)
- Juan Manuel Fangio (1911)
- Martin Lewis Perl (1927)
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
16,052 days ago
(43 years, 357 days)