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On the date
Thursday, July 20, 1989
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The Headlines
Some of Siberia's Miners Return; Gorbachev Calls Strike a Crisis
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Toy Soldiers
Martika
#1 at the box office
Lethal Weapon 2
$13,022,249
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Petrarch (1304)
- Edmund Hillary (1919)
- Gregor Mendel (1822)
- Carlos Alazraqui (1962)
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864)
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
13,470 days ago
(36 years, 330 days)