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Tuesday, December 21, 1999
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The Headlines
Get Over It, Little Girl. Stop Your Whining.
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Smooth
Santana featuring Rob Thomas
#1 at the box office
Any Given Sunday
The must-have
Pokémon Cards
On This Day
The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
Wikipedia →Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Emmanuel Macron (1977)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804)
- Mikheil Saakashvili (1967)
- Hu Jintao (1942)
- Heinrich Böll (1917)
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
9,663 days ago
(26 years, 173 days)