From the day
On the date
Sunday, January 25, 1998
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The Headlines
INSIDE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Together Again
Janet Jackson
#1 at the box office
Titanic †
$25,238,720
The must-have
Furby
On This Day
During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
Wikipedia →A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy (1978)
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Google Search, iMac G3 & MP3 Player (Rio).
Cost of Living (1995)
Loaf of Bread
$0.79
Gallon of Gas
$1.15
Average Home
$133,900
New Car
$18,200
Time Elapsed
10,358 days ago
(28 years, 138 days)