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On the date
Wednesday, August 31, 1988
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The Headlines
INSIDE
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
$6,435,710
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
Wikipedia →CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Tsai Ing-wen (1956)
- Maria Montessori (1870)
- Hassan Nasrallah (1960)
- Théophile Gautier (1811)
- Mohammed bin Salman (1985)
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
13,792 days ago
(37 years, 287 days)