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On the date
Tuesday, May 12, 1992
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The Headlines
THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate's Record; Perot Stand on Prisoner Issue Left a Residue of Bitterness
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Jump
Kris Kross
#1 at the box office
Lethal Weapon 3
The must-have
Barney the Dinosaur Plush
You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Rishi Sunak (1980)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
SMS Text Message, ThinkPad & JPEG Standard.
Cost of Living (1990)
Loaf of Bread
$0.70
Gallon of Gas
$1.16
Average Home
$123,000
New Car
$16,950
Time Elapsed
12,442 days ago
(34 years, 32 days)