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Tuesday, October 21, 1986
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The Headlines
HOUSING WOES PERPLEX ELDERLY IN SUBURBS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
True Colors
Cyndi Lauper
#1 at the box office
Crocodile Dundee
$6,745,249
The must-have
Lazer Tag
On This Day
In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Kim Kardashian (1980)
- Carrie Fisher (1956)
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
14,472 days ago
(39 years, 237 days)