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On the date
Tuesday, August 23, 1988
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The Headlines
Police Raided Club Where 6 Died in Blaze
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Monkey
George Michael
#1 at the box office
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
$6,989,358
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XVI (1754)
- Kobe Bryant (1978)
- Edgar de Wahl (1867)
- Georges Cuvier (1769)
- Gene Kelly (1912)
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
13,800 days ago
(37 years, 295 days)