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Thursday, February 7, 1991
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The Headlines
Insurance Giants No Longer Ask To Be All Things to All People
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams
#1 at the box office
Sleeping with the Enemy
The must-have
Super Soaker
On This Day
Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
Wikipedia →The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Charles Dickens (1812)
- Thomas More (1478)
- Sinclair Lewis (1885)
- Alfred Adler (1870)
- Tawakkol Karman (1979)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Linux Kernel, 2G Network (GSM) & Super Soaker.
Cost of Living (1990)
Loaf of Bread
$0.70
Gallon of Gas
$1.16
Average Home
$123,000
New Car
$16,950
Time Elapsed
12,902 days ago
(35 years, 127 days)