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Tuesday, August 30, 1983
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The Headlines
MASSEY CUTS LOSS IN QUARTER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Eurythmics
#1 at the box office
Mr. Mom
$8,221,715
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.
Wikipedia →Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Alexander Lukashenko (1954)
- Warren Buffett (1930)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Cameron Diaz (1972)
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
15,620 days ago
(42 years, 290 days)