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Wednesday, May 25, 1983
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The Headlines
TRAFALGAR SEEKS P & O WITH A $452 MILLION BID
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Flashdance... What a Feeling
Irene Cara
#1 at the box office
Return of the Jedi †
$30,490,619
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
- Pieter Zeeman (1865)
- Ian McKellen (1939)
- Cillian Murphy (1976)
- Mike Myers (1963)
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
15,717 days ago
(43 years, 22 days)