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Thursday, July 27, 1989
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The Headlines
P.L.O. SAID TO EASE TERMS FOR VOTING IN OCCUPIED AREAS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Toy Soldiers
Martika
#1 at the box office
Turner & Hooch
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed, in the second accident involving a DC-10 in less than two weeks, the first being United Airlines Flight 232.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Giosuè Carducci (1835)
- Alexandre Dumas fils (1824)
- Jean Baudrillard (1929)
- Murad IV (1612)
- Marek Hamšík (1987)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
Valley Girl
Hip Hop
Yuppie
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
13,462 days ago
(36 years, 322 days)