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Friday, September 26, 1997
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The Headlines
Canada Peeved and Puzzled By Big Neighbor to the South
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Honey
Mariah Carey
#1 at the box office
The Peacemaker
$12,311,939
The must-have
Tamagotchi
On This Day
A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
Wikipedia →An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Petro Poroshenko (1965)
- Serena Williams (1981)
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
10,479 days ago
(28 years, 259 days)