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Thursday, October 11, 1984
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The Headlines
CATERPILLAR SLASHES ITS DIVIDEND
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Just Called to Say I Love You
Stevie Wonder
#1 at the box office
Teachers
$4,579,286
The must-have
Transformers
On This Day
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
Wikipedia →Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- Amitabh Bachchan (1942)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Bobby Charlton (1937)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
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
Apple Macintosh, CD-ROM & Flash Memory.
Style of 1984
Silhouette: Athletic and layered
Material: Spandex and sweat
- Leg warmers
- Headbands
- Oversized sweatshirts
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
15,212 days ago
(41 years, 247 days)