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On the date

Sunday, July 4, 1982

From the day

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Don't You Want Me

The Human League

The must-have

My Little Pony

On This Day

  • Space Shuttle program: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the program's final test flight, STS-4. President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.

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  • Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.

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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

Catchphrases of 1982

  • E.T. phone home

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

16,042 days ago

(43 years, 347 days)