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On the date
Thursday, April 27, 1989
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The Headlines
Mobil Reported to Plan South African Pullout
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
The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (1967)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
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
13,553 days ago
(37 years, 48 days)