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Oakland, CA - joey - Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 : goo

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January 20 - Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States. February 9 - The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running. March 26 - Thirty-nine bodies found in Heaven's Gate cult suicide. April 21 - First space burial, carrying the remains of 24 people in to earth orbit. May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch. July 1 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. July 17 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business. August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car crash. October 27 - Stock markets around the world crash because of a global economic crisis scare. October 28 - Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 to 7,498.32. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever. The term "weblog" was coined in December 1997. TYWikipedia

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Peter: 1997 was a very good year.

joey: we were so much younger then

jeeff: yeah like at least five years younger.

Peter: heh yay idiosyncracies! :)

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