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Friday, July 24, 1987
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The Headlines
Ford Posts 38.9% Rise In Profits
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Alone
Heart
#1 at the box office
RoboCop
$6,332,716
The must-have
Jenga
On This Day
US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
Wikipedia →Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Simón Bolívar (1783)
- Alexandre Dumas (1802)
- Jennifer Lopez (1969)
- Amelia Earhart (1897)
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
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
14,196 days ago
(38 years, 326 days)