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Thursday, July 8, 1982
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The Headlines
MOBILE PHONE PACT IS STUDIED
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Don't You Want Me
The Human League
#1 at the box office
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial †
$12,802,287
The must-have
My Little Pony
On This Day
A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621)
- John D. Rockefeller (1839)
- Pyotr Kapitsa (1894)
- Igor Tamm (1895)
- Nelson Rockefeller (1908)
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
16,038 days ago
(43 years, 343 days)