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Thursday, April 14, 1988
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The Headlines
Helmsleys Face An Indictment On Tax Charge
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car
Billy Ocean
#1 at the box office
Beetlejuice
$7,145,123
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
Wikipedia →The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- B. R. Ambedkar (1891)
- Averroes (1126)
- Christiaan Huygens (1629)
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889)
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906)
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
13,932 days ago
(38 years, 62 days)