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On the date
Thursday, August 31, 1989
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The Headlines
Planners Aim to Keep The Sizzle in Times Sq.
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Cold Hearted
Paula Abdul
#1 at the box office
Uncle Buck
$7,822,640
The must-have
Game Boy
You Share a Birthday With
- Tsai Ing-wen (1956)
- Maria Montessori (1870)
- Hassan Nasrallah (1960)
- Théophile Gautier (1811)
- Mohammed bin Salman (1985)
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
13,428 days ago
(36 years, 288 days)