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Wednesday, September 22, 1993
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The Headlines
METRO DIGEST
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Dreamlover
Mariah Carey
#1 at the box office
The Good Son
The must-have
Beanie Babies
On This Day
A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
Wikipedia →A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Michael Faraday (1791)
- Andrea Bocelli (1958)
- Ségolène Royal (1953)
- Thiago Silva (1984)
- Saul Perlmutter (1959)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Web Browser (Mosaic), Pentium Processor & PDF.
Cost of Living (1990)
Loaf of Bread
$0.70
Gallon of Gas
$1.16
Average Home
$123,000
New Car
$16,950
Time Elapsed
11,944 days ago
(32 years, 264 days)