From the day
On the date
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Memories from that day
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The Headlines
Guard Families, on Their Own for the Holidays, Retrench
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Beyoncé
#1 at the box office
The Day the Earth Stood Still
$30,480,153
The must-have
Wall-E Animatronic
On This Day
Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
- Hector Berlioz (1803)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Max Born (1882)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
sketchypeepsnewbie
Text Speak
brblolomgrofltmi
Emo
rawrsqueescene
Reality Tv
you're firedthe tribe has spoken
Tech Check
App Store, Android (Release), Spotify & Chrome.
Cost of Living (2008)
Loaf of Bread
$1.37
Gallon of Gas
$3.27
Average Home
$229,600
New Car
$25,200
Meanwhile
- The Great Recession — Housing market crash; Lehman Brothers collapse (2008-09-15).
Time Elapsed
6,385 days ago
(17 years, 180 days)