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On the date
Wednesday, September 21, 1983
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The Headlines
DOW RISES BY 15.25, TO NEW HIGH
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Tell Her About It
Billy Joel
#1 at the box office
Mr. Mom
$3,207,199
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- H. G. Wells (1866)
- Shinzo Abe (1954)
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909)
- Stephen King (1947)
- Leonard Cohen (1934)
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
15,598 days ago
(42 years, 268 days)