Thursday, August 23, 1990

From the day

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The Headlines

The Appliance Brand-Name Game

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Vision of Love

Mariah Carey

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Super Nintendo (SNES)

On This Day

• Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

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• Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

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• West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Louis XVI (1754)
• Kobe Bryant (1978)
• Edgar de Wahl (1867)
• Georges Cuvier (1769)
• Gene Kelly (1912)

Slang

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)