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On the date
Tuesday, August 4, 1987
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The Headlines
Manpower Inc. Gets British Bid
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
U2
#1 at the box office
The Living Daylights
$7,706,230
The must-have
Jenga
On This Day
The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Barack Obama (1961)
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960)
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
14,185 days ago
(38 years, 315 days)