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On the date
Thursday, February 21, 1985
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The Headlines
Olivetti Buys Acorn Stake IVREA, Italy, Feb. 20 (Reuters) - Ing. C. Olivetti & Company, Italy's fast-expanding
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)
You Share a Birthday With
- Robert Mugabe (1924)
- Harald V (1937)
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980)
- W. H. Auden (1907)
- Alan Rickman (1946)
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
15,079 days ago
(41 years, 114 days)