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Wednesday, April 26, 1989
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The Headlines
Park Suspects: Children of Discipline
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Like a Prayer
Madonna
#1 at the box office
Pet Sematary
$8,380,098
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
Wikipedia →The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)
- AD 121 (121)
- AD 757 (757)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798)
- Jet Li (1963)
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
13,555 days ago
(37 years, 50 days)