Friday, April 5, 1991

From the day

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The Headlines

New Jobless Claims at 8-Year High

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Coming Out of the Dark

Gloria Estefan

#1 at the box office

$7,812,507

The must-have

Super Soaker

On This Day

• The Space shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

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• An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Thomas Hobbes (1588)
• Bette Davis (1908)
• Gregory Peck (1916)
• Pope Urban VIII (1568)
• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947)

Slang

Tech Check

Linux Kernel, 2G Network (GSM) & Super Soaker.

Cost of Living (1990)