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Saturday, June 18, 1983
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The Headlines
MX MISSILE SAILS OVER PACIFIC IN A SUCCESSFUL MAIDEN FLIGHT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Flashdance... What a Feeling
Irene Cara
#1 at the box office
Superman III
$13,352,357
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
Wikipedia →Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Paul McCartney (1942)
- Lech Kaczyński (1949)
- Thabo Mbeki (1942)
- Roger Ebert (1942)
- Jürgen Habermas (1929)
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
15,693 days ago
(42 years, 363 days)