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Tuesday, May 21, 1991
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The Headlines
Next Bloomingdale's Chief Named
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Don't Wanna Cry
Mariah Carey
#1 at the box office
Backdraft
The must-have
Super Soaker
On This Day
Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
Wikipedia →Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Albrecht Dürer (1471)
- Andrei Sakharov (1921)
- Philip II of Spain (1527)
- Mary Robinson (1944)
- Willem Einthoven (1860)
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
12,799 days ago
(35 years, 24 days)