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Tuesday, October 15, 1991
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The Headlines
Officials Say B.C.C.I. Owners Left a California Bank Reeling
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Emotions
Mariah Carey
#1 at the box office
Other People's Money
The must-have
Super Soaker
On This Day
The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
Wikipedia →The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Michel Foucault (1926)
- Mesut Özil (1988)
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
12,653 days ago
(34 years, 243 days)