From the day
On the date
Monday, February 21, 1983
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The Headlines
Index; International
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Baby, Come to Me
Patti Austin and James Ingram
#1 at the box office
Tootsie
$7,524,261
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Robert Mugabe (1924)
- Harald V (1937)
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980)
- W. H. Auden (1907)
- Alan Rickman (1946)
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
15,810 days ago
(43 years, 115 days)