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On the date
Friday, January 22, 1988
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The Headlines
The Paper Bag Players: Still Zany
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Way You Make Me Feel
Michael Jackson
#1 at the box office
Good Morning, Vietnam
$10,806,276
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
You Share a Birthday With
- Lord Byron (1788)
- Francis Bacon (1561)
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891)
- August Strindberg (1849)
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
Fiber Optic Cables (Transatlantic), Doppler Radar & Digital Cellular.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,014 days ago
(38 years, 144 days)