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Monday, April 25, 1983
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The Headlines
CORPORATE PROFITS ARE IMPROVING
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Beat It
Michael Jackson
#1 at the box office
Flashdance
$4,095,000
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
Wikipedia →Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Al Pacino (1940)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874)
- Johan Cruyff (1947)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
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
15,747 days ago
(43 years, 52 days)