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Monday, August 2, 1982
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The Headlines
PENTAGON CHOOSES GRUMMAN F-14 JET AS NAVY'S FIGHTER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Eye of the Tiger
Survivor
#1 at the box office
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial †
$9,525,306
The must-have
My Little Pony
On This Day
The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Shimon Peres (1923)
- Peter O'Toole (1932)
- Isabel Allende (1942)
- James Baldwin (1924)
- Jorge Rafael Videla (1925)
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
16,013 days ago
(43 years, 318 days)