From the day
On the date
Monday, January 9, 1989
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The Headlines
Hoping Students Without Homes Will Say, 'Here!'
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
My Prerogative
Bobby Brown
#1 at the box office
Rain Man
$10,111,504
The must-have
Game Boy
You Share a Birthday With
- Richard Nixon (1913)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
- AD 727 (727)
- Karel Čapek (1890)
- Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982)
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
World Wide Web (Proposal), Game Boy & GPS (Civilian).
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
13,661 days ago
(37 years, 156 days)