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Tuesday, April 29, 1986
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST: TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1986
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer
#1 at the box office
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
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On This Day
The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
Wikipedia →An assembly of Sikhs, known as a Sarbat Khalsa, officially declared independence for a state of Khalistan.
Wikipedia →A fire at the Central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Hirohito (1901)
- Henri Poincaré (1854)
- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (1968)
- Alexander II of Russia (1818)
- Uma Thurman (1970)
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
14,647 days ago
(40 years, 47 days)