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On the date
Tuesday, February 19, 1985
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The Headlines
GETTING HUGHES BACK IN ORBIT
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
$5,857,274
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
A Boeing 727 operating as Iberia Flight 610 crashes Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148; it is the deadliest accident to occur in Iberia's history and the deadliest in Basque County to occur.
Wikipedia →William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953)
- Svante Arrhenius (1859)
- Saparmurat Niyazov (1940)
- André Breton (1896)
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
15,081 days ago
(41 years, 116 days)