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On the date
Sunday, January 9, 1983
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The Headlines
VIEWING CABLE TV: NEW TECHNOLOGY POSES LEGAL ISSUE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Down Under
Men at Work
#1 at the box office
Tootsie
$10,553,448
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Richard Nixon (1913)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
- AD 727 (727)
- Karel Čapek (1890)
- Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982)
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
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, Internet (TCP/IP Standard) & Microsoft Word.
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
15,853 days ago
(43 years, 158 days)