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Friday, July 23, 1999
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The Headlines
Trustees Anoint CUNY Chief With a Pledge Not to Meddle
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Wild Wild West
Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee
#1 at the box office
The Haunting
The must-have
Pokémon Cards
On This Day
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Wikipedia →ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Sergio Mattarella (1941)
- Haile Selassie (1892)
- Daniel Radcliffe (1989)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967)
- Raymond Chandler (1888)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Napster, BlackBerry, Bluetooth & Wi-Fi (Apple AirPort).
Cost of Living (1995)
Loaf of Bread
$0.79
Gallon of Gas
$1.15
Average Home
$133,900
New Car
$18,200
Time Elapsed
9,815 days ago
(26 years, 325 days)