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Sunday, July 31, 1988
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The Headlines
DEAL IS OUTLINED FOR U.S. TO SELL ARMS TO KUWAIT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Roll With It
Steve Winwood
#1 at the box office
Cocktail
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- J. K. Rowling (1965)
- Milton Friedman (1912)
- Louis de Funès (1914)
- Primo Levi (1919)
- Premchand (1880)
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
13,823 days ago
(37 years, 318 days)