From the day
On the date
Wednesday, July 6, 1988
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The Headlines
Sun to Buy Atlantic Petroleum
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Flame
Cheap Trick
#1 at the box office
Coming to America
$13,342,707
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
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You Share a Birthday With
- George W. Bush (1946)
- Frida Kahlo (1907)
- 14th Dalai Lama (1935)
- Sylvester Stallone (1946)
- Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940)
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
13,849 days ago
(37 years, 344 days)