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On the date
Wednesday, August 23, 1989
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The Headlines
Dinkins Is Customizing His Stock Message
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Right Here Waiting
Richard Marx
#1 at the box office
Uncle Buck
$6,725,275
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XVI (1754)
- Kobe Bryant (1978)
- Edgar de Wahl (1867)
- Georges Cuvier (1769)
- Gene Kelly (1912)
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
13,435 days ago
(36 years, 295 days)