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Monday, January 28, 1985
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The Headlines
RURAL HOMESTEADERS SEEK SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND CHERISH SOLITUDE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Want to Know What Love Is
Foreigner
#1 at the box office
Beverly Hills Cop
$7,143,280
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Nicolas Sarkozy (1955)
- Jackson Pollock (1912)
- Gianluigi Buffon (1978)
- José Martí (1853)
- Colette (1873)
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
15,103 days ago
(41 years, 138 days)