From the day
On the date
Monday, May 7, 1990
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The Headlines
Breakthrough in Boston: Knicks Roll, 121-114
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Nothing Compares 2 U
Sinéad O'Connor
#1 at the box office
Pretty Woman
$7,594,013
The must-have
Super Nintendo (SNES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
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
13,178 days ago
(36 years, 38 days)