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Thursday, November 7, 1996
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The Headlines
The First Casualties In Scandal at Texaco
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
No Diggity
Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre
#1 at the box office
Ransom
$34,216,088
The must-have
Tickle Me Elmo
On This Day
NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
Wikipedia →ADC Airlines Flight 086 crashes into the Lagos Lagoon in Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria, killing all 144 people on board.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Marie Curie (1867)
- Albert Camus (1913)
- Leon Trotsky (1879)
- James Cook (1728)
- C. V. Raman (1888)
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
10,803 days ago
(29 years, 218 days)