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Friday, July 9, 1982
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The Headlines
News Summary; FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1982
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
Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Tom Hanks (1956)
- Viktor Yanukovych (1950)
- Donald Rumsfeld (1932)
- Courtney Love (1964)
- Edward Heath (1916)
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
16,037 days ago
(43 years, 342 days)