From the day
On the date
Thursday, October 19, 1989
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The Headlines
Secondary Stocks Rise; Volume Dips
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Miss You Much
Janet Jackson
#1 at the box office
Look Who's Talking
$14,147,340
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
- John le Carré (1931)
- Philip Pullman (1946)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433)
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
13,378 days ago
(36 years, 238 days)