From the day
On the date
Saturday, July 16, 1988
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The Headlines
Chinese Missiles Sold in Mideast Worrying Shultz
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Flame
Cheap Trick
#1 at the box office
Coming to America
$10,417,790
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
You Share a Birthday With
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Larry Sanger (1968)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1907)
- Sergio Busquets (1988)
- Katrina Kaif (1983)
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
13,838 days ago
(37 years, 333 days)