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On the date

Wednesday, September 2, 1998

From the day

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing

Aerosmith

The must-have

Furby

On This Day

  • The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

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  • Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever

Grunge

flannellameposerslacker

Hip Hop

blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'

Tech

cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb

Catchphrases of 1998

  • D'oh!
  • Got Milk?

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

10,138 days ago

(27 years, 283 days)