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On the date
Tuesday, October 20, 1987
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The Headlines
Day to Remember In Financial District
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
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)