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On the date
Sunday, May 3, 1987
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The Headlines
STATE AND LILCO PRESSING DEBATE ON TAKEOVER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
(I Just) Died in Your Arms
Cutting Crew
#1 at the box office
The Secret of My Success
$4,609,670
The must-have
Jenga
On This Day
A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469)
- Golda Meir (1898)
- Bing Crosby (1903)
- James Brown (1933)
- Steven Weinberg (1933)
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
PowerPoint, Perl & Prozac.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,278 days ago
(39 years, 43 days)