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On the date
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
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The Headlines
SOME UNITS OF JERSEY FIRM SHUT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
We Are the World
USA for Africa
#1 at the box office
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
$5,406,970
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Charles Baudelaire (1821)
- Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
- Hugh Hefner (1926)
- Elias Lönnrot (1802)
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
15,033 days ago
(41 years, 68 days)