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Thursday, August 4, 1983
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The Headlines
PENTAGON REPORTS ENCOUNTER AT SEA WITH SOVIET SHIP
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Every Breath You Take
The Police
#1 at the box office
National Lampoon's Vacation
$7,191,832
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, president of the military government of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Captain Thomas Sankara.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Barack Obama (1961)
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960)
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
15,646 days ago
(42 years, 316 days)