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Saturday, May 21, 1983
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The Headlines
16 KILLED, 190 HURT IN PRETORIA BLAST AT MILITARY OFFICE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Let's Dance
David Bowie
#1 at the box office
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
$7,053,016
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Albrecht Dürer (1471)
- Andrei Sakharov (1921)
- Philip II of Spain (1527)
- Mary Robinson (1944)
- Willem Einthoven (1860)
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
15,721 days ago
(43 years, 26 days)