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Saturday, July 23, 1983
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The Headlines
SUSPECTED HEAD OF OMEGA 7 TERRORIST GROUP SEIZED
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Every Breath You Take
The Police
#1 at the box office
Jaws 3-D
$13,422,500
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
Wikipedia →Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Sergio Mattarella (1941)
- Haile Selassie (1892)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967)
- Raymond Chandler (1888)
- Pope Clement XI (1649)
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
15,658 days ago
(42 years, 328 days)