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Sunday, June 5, 1983
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The Headlines
ILLEGAL DUMPING OF TOXINS LAID TO ORGANIZED CRIME
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 †
$17,229,694
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel, yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
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You Share a Birthday With
- John Maynard Keynes (1883)
- Federico García Lorca (1898)
- Mark Wahlberg (1971)
- Dennis Gabor (1900)
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1942)
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
15,706 days ago
(43 years, 11 days)