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Monday, August 31, 1987
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The Headlines
MINERS END STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH NO WAGE GAIN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
La Bamba
Los Lobos
The must-have
Jenga
On This Day
Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Tsai Ing-wen (1956)
- Maria Montessori (1870)
- Hassan Nasrallah (1960)
- Théophile Gautier (1811)
- Mohammed bin Salman (1985)
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
14,158 days ago
(38 years, 288 days)