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On the date
Saturday, July 23, 1988
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The Headlines
Moving Cities' People by Rail: Systems Spread, Doubts Rise
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Hold On to the Nights
Richard Marx
#1 at the box office
Who Framed Roger Rabbit †
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Sergio Mattarella (1941)
- Haile Selassie (1892)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967)
- Raymond Chandler (1888)
- Pope Clement XI (1649)
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
13,831 days ago
(37 years, 326 days)