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Thursday, October 15, 1987
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The Headlines
ARIAS IS INSISTING SANDINISTAS TALK WITH REBEL CHIEFS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Lost in Emotion
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
#1 at the box office
Fatal Attraction
$7,688,730
The must-have
Jenga
On This Day
A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
Wikipedia →Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Michel Foucault (1926)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931)
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
14,113 days ago
(38 years, 243 days)