Tuesday, August 20, 1991

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The Headlines

Fatal Crash Starts Melee With Police In Brooklyn

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"

Bryan Adams

#1 at the box office

$4,676,467

The must-have

Super Soaker

On This Day

• Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.

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• Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Benjamin Harrison (1833)
• Andrew Garfield (1983)
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890)
• Rajiv Gandhi (1944)
• Slobodan Milošević (1941)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1990)