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Thursday, November 17, 1983
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The Headlines
TODAY THE SINGLE WOMAN IS SETTING UP HOUSE IN STYLE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
All Night Long (All Night)
Lionel Richie
#1 at the box office
Amityville 3-D
$2,366,472
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Scorsese (1942)
- Eugene Wigner (1902)
- Cyril Ramaphosa (1952)
- Rachel McAdams (1978)
- Louis XVIII (1755)
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
15,541 days ago
(42 years, 211 days)