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Tuesday, September 17, 1991
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Adore Mi Amor
Color Me Badd
#1 at the box office
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
$6,626,378
The must-have
Super Soaker
On This Day
Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
Wikipedia →The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Narendra Modi (1950)
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Anastacia (1968)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Jimmie Johnson (1975)
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
12,680 days ago
(34 years, 270 days)