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Thursday, May 4, 1989
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The Headlines
ANTITRUST EASING WILL BE PROPOSED TO AID TV EFFORT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Like a Prayer
Madonna
#1 at the box office
Pet Sematary
$6,338,594
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe.
Wikipedia →Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Audrey Hepburn (1929)
- Hosni Mubarak (1928)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825)
- Cesc Fàbregas (1987)
- Amos Oz (1939)
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
13,546 days ago
(37 years, 41 days)