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Saturday, January 29, 1983
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The Headlines
ALBANY TO PROVIDE $9 MILLION TO BAR TEACHERS' LAYOFFS
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
On This Day
Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered oil rig, Eniwetok, strikes the cables of the Singapore Cable Car system linking the mainland and Sentosa Island, causing two cabins to fall into the water and killing seven people and leaving thirteen others trapped for hours.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Anton Chekhov (1860)
- William McKinley (1843)
- Romain Rolland (1866)
- Oprah Winfrey (1954)
- Abdus Salam (1926)
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
15,833 days ago
(43 years, 138 days)