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Sunday, March 11, 1990
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The Headlines
MOSCOW DAYS: LIBERATED BY HAROLD ROBBINS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Escapade
Janet Jackson
#1 at the box office
The Hunt for Red October
$14,058,772
The must-have
Super Nintendo (SNES)
On This Day
Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
Wikipedia →Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Douglas Adams (1952)
- Harold Wilson (1916)
- Qasem Soleimani (1957)
- Torquato Tasso (1544)
- Rupert Murdoch (1931)
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
13,235 days ago
(36 years, 95 days)