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Sunday, February 16, 1986
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The Headlines
HOSPITALS SAY AIDS STRAINS RESOURCES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
How Will I Know
Whitney Houston
#1 at the box office
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
$7,023,743
The must-have
Lazer Tag
On This Day
The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
Wikipedia →China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Kim Jong Il (1941)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- Diego Godín (1986)
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
Disposable Camera, Pixar & Mir Space Station.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,719 days ago
(40 years, 119 days)