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On the date
Sunday, August 3, 1997
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The Headlines
William Burroughs, Beat Writer, Dies
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I'll Be Missing You
Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112
#1 at the box office
Air Force One
$25,731,622
The must-have
Tamagotchi
On This Day
The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
Wikipedia →Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- James Hetfield (1963)
- Evangeline Lilly (1979)
- Habib Bourguiba (1903)
- Stanley Baldwin (1867)
- Martin Sheen (1940)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Wi-Fi (802.11), Netflix (DVD Rental) & Toyota Prius (Hybrid).
Cost of Living (1995)
Loaf of Bread
$0.79
Gallon of Gas
$1.15
Average Home
$133,900
New Car
$18,200
Time Elapsed
10,533 days ago
(28 years, 313 days)