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On the date
Saturday, January 31, 1998
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The Headlines
If You Never Slept, You'd Fall Apart Too; As City Crumbles, New Yorkers Adjust, but With Hard Hats
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Together Again
Janet Jackson
#1 at the box office
Titanic †
$25,907,172
The must-have
Furby
You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Justin Timberlake (1981)
- Kenzaburō Ōe (1935)
- Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938)
- Norman Mailer (1923)
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
10,352 days ago
(28 years, 132 days)