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On the date
Monday, January 24, 1983
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The Headlines
STORES REASSESS VIDEO GAMES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Down Under
Men at Work
#1 at the box office
Tootsie
$7,325,537
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- AD 76 (1976)
- Frederick the Great (1712)
- Moon Jae-in (1953)
- Joachim Gauck (1940)
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732)
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
15,838 days ago
(43 years, 143 days)