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Saturday, August 15, 1998
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The Headlines
Finance Chief Confirms Steps To Aid Markets In Hong Kong
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Boy Is Mine
Brandy and Monica
#1 at the box office
Saving Private Ryan
$13,157,819
The must-have
Furby
On This Day
Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
Wikipedia →Apple introduces the iMac computer.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Napoleon (1769)
- Walter Scott (1771)
- Jennifer Lawrence (1990)
- Ben Affleck (1972)
- Louis de Broglie (1892)
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
10,156 days ago
(27 years, 301 days)