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Monday, January 7, 1985
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The Headlines
SHULTZ PROMISES A 'REASONABLE' U.S. AT ARMS MEETINGS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Like a Virgin
Madonna
#1 at the box office
Beverly Hills Cop
$9,616,239
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Millard Fillmore (1800)
- Jeremy Renner (1971)
- Nicolas Cage (1964)
- Lewis Hamilton (1985)
- Pope Gregory XIII (1502)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
Windows 1.0, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) & DNA Fingerprinting.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
15,124 days ago
(41 years, 159 days)