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On the date
Sunday, August 28, 1988
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The Headlines
POSTINGS: All in the Family; Steel Plant Making Way for Twin Residential Towers
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
On This Day
Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Black (1969)
- Shania Twain (1965)
- David Fincher (1962)
- Ivo Josipović (1957)
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
13,795 days ago
(37 years, 290 days)