From the day
On the date
Sunday, January 15, 1989
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The Headlines
Blacks' Charities Struggle To Meet Cosby Challenge
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Two Hearts
Phil Collins
#1 at the box office
Rain Man
$10,111,504
The must-have
Game Boy
You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929)
- Molière (1622)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809)
- Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850)
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
13,655 days ago
(37 years, 150 days)