From the day
On the date
Saturday, June 24, 1989
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The Headlines
Tanker Strikes Reef Off Newport, Spilling Oil in Narragansett Bay
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Satisfied
Richard Marx
#1 at the box office
Batman †
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Lionel Messi (1987)
- Ambrose Bierce (1842)
- Claudia Sheinbaum (1962)
- Victor Hess (1883)
- Juan Manuel Fangio (1911)
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
13,496 days ago
(36 years, 356 days)