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On the date
Wednesday, August 14, 1996
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The Headlines
Professor Barred From China
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Macarena" (Bayside Boys Mix)
Los del Río
#1 at the box office
Tin Cup
$10,128,834
The must-have
Tickle Me Elmo
On This Day
Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Galsworthy (1867)
- Halle Berry (1966)
- Mila Kunis (1983)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
- Pope Pius VII (1742)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Hotmail, Nintendo 64, USB & Palm Pilot.
Cost of Living (1995)
Loaf of Bread
$0.79
Gallon of Gas
$1.15
Average Home
$133,900
New Car
$18,200
Time Elapsed
10,887 days ago
(29 years, 302 days)