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On the date
Saturday, July 4, 1987
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The Headlines
NEW LIGHT ON 1787 AND WASHINGTON'S DOUBTS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Whitney Houston
#1 at the box office
Dragnet
$7,042,650
The must-have
Jenga
You Share a Birthday With
- Calvin Coolidge (1872)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
- Gina Lollobrigida (1927)
- Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926)
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
14,216 days ago
(38 years, 346 days)