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Wednesday, November 2, 1988
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The Headlines
Differing Views of America's Global Role
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Kokomo
The Beach Boys
#1 at the box office
They Live
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
Wikipedia →LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- James K. Polk (1795)
- Warren G. Harding (1865)
- Shah Rukh Khan (1965)
- Marie Antoinette (1755)
- George Boole (1815)
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
13,729 days ago
(37 years, 224 days)