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On the date
Tuesday, February 5, 1985
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DEDUCTIONS: THE RULES ARE STRICT
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
$6,026,722
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage, meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Cristiano Ronaldo (1985)
- Charlotte Rampling (1946)
- Abhishek Bachchan (1976)
- Carlos Tevez (1984)
- William S. Burroughs (1914)
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
15,095 days ago
(41 years, 130 days)