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Thursday, April 4, 1991
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Coming Out of the Dark
Gloria Estefan
#1 at the box office
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
$7,812,507
The must-have
Super Soaker
On This Day
Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
Wikipedia →Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. Three of the hostage takers and three hostages are killed.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Maya Angelou (1928)
- Robert Downey Jr. (1965)
- Heath Ledger (1979)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (1932)
- Caracalla (188)
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
12,846 days ago
(35 years, 71 days)