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On the date
Saturday, February 16, 1985
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The Headlines
CHINA TRIES TO SHUT THE DOOR ON THE RED GUARDS' LEGACY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Careless Whisper
Wham! featuring George Michael
#1 at the box office
Beverly Hills Cop
$7,770,244
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Hezbollah is founded.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Kim Jong Il (1941)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- John McEnroe (1959)
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
15,084 days ago
(41 years, 119 days)