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Monday, October 19, 1987
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The Headlines
A Forecast for Israel: More Arabs Than Jews
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Bad
Michael Jackson
#1 at the box office
Fatal Attraction
$8,046,843
The must-have
Jenga
On This Day
Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
Wikipedia →The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
- John le Carré (1931)
- Philip Pullman (1946)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433)
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
Meanwhile
- Black Monday — Largest single-day percentage drop in stock market history (-22.6%).
Time Elapsed
14,109 days ago
(38 years, 239 days)