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On the date
Thursday, August 26, 1999
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The Headlines
A 1901 Notion Of Carnegie Still Helping City Libraries
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Genie in a Bottle
Christina Aguilera
#1 at the box office
The Sixth Sense
$20,099,149
The must-have
Pokémon Cards
On This Day
Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Chris Pine (1980)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Julio Cortázar (1914)
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
9,780 days ago
(26 years, 290 days)