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Tuesday, November 19, 1996
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The Headlines
Paradise Lost: Biosphere Retooled as Atmospheric Nightmare
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
No Diggity
Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre
#1 at the box office
Star Trek: First Contact
$30,716,131
The must-have
Tickle Me Elmo
On This Day
Space Shuttle program: Columbia is launched on STS-80, which would become the longest mission in the program at 17 days. On this mission, astronaut Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.
Wikipedia →A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- James A. Garfield (1831)
- Jodie Foster (1962)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711)
- Charles I of England (1600)
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
10,790 days ago
(29 years, 205 days)