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On the date
Friday, October 7, 1988
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The Headlines
Environmental Study Urges Limiting Rise in Cabs to 400
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Love Bites
Def Leppard
#1 at the box office
Alien Nation
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Vladimir Putin (1952)
- Niels Bohr (1885)
- Heinrich Himmler (1900)
- Desmond Tutu (1931)
- María Corina Machado (1967)
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
13,755 days ago
(37 years, 250 days)