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Wednesday, February 14, 1990
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The Headlines
Preschool Aid for the Poor: How Big a Head Start?
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Opposites Attract
Paula Abdul with The Wild Pair
#1 at the box office
Driving Miss Daisy
The must-have
Super Nintendo (SNES)
On This Day
The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
Wikipedia →Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Mark Rutte (1967)
- Simon Pegg (1970)
- Babur (1483)
- C. T. R. Wilson (1869)
- Ángel Di María (1988)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Hubble Telescope, Photoshop 1.0 & HTML.
Style of 1990
Silhouette: Unkempt and layered (Grunge)
Material: Flannel and thermal knit
- Doc Martens
- Ripped jeans
- Chokers
Cost of Living (1990)
Loaf of Bread
$0.70
Gallon of Gas
$1.16
Average Home
$123,000
New Car
$16,950
Time Elapsed
13,260 days ago
(36 years, 120 days)