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Tuesday, February 14, 1989
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The Headlines
At This Retreat, A Cat Becomes His Own Master
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Straight Up
Paula Abdul
#1 at the box office
The 'Burbs
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
Wikipedia →Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Mark Rutte (1967)
- Simon Pegg (1970)
- Babur (1483)
- C. T. R. Wilson (1869)
- Ángel Di María (1988)
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
13,626 days ago
(37 years, 121 days)