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Thursday, October 9, 1986
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The Headlines
NEW RIVALS ASIDE, WALL ST. STILL CALLS THE TUNE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
When I Think of You
Janet Jackson
#1 at the box office
Crocodile Dundee
$10,560,827
The must-have
Lazer Tag
On This Day
Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.
Wikipedia →The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Lennon (1940)
- David Cameron (1966)
- Ivo Andrić (1892)
- Max von Laue (1879)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906)
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
14,484 days ago
(39 years, 249 days)