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Friday, July 31, 1992
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The Headlines
Credit Markets; Open Treasury Auctions: Years Away
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Baby Got Back
Sir Mix-a-Lot
#1 at the box office
Death Becomes Her
The must-have
Barney the Dinosaur Plush
On This Day
The nation of Georgia joins the United Nations.
Wikipedia →Space Shuttle program: Atlantis is launched on STS-46 to deploy the European Retrievable Carrier and the Tethered Satellite System.
Wikipedia →Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
Wikipedia →China General Aviation Flight 7552 crashes during takeoff from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- J. K. Rowling (1965)
- Milton Friedman (1912)
- Louis de Funès (1914)
- Primo Levi (1919)
- Premchand (1880)
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
12,362 days ago
(33 years, 317 days)