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Friday, April 12, 1985
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The Headlines
TRACKING ICEBERGS FROM AIR HELPS SAVE SHIPS AND LIVES
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)
On This Day
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jacob Zuma (1942)
- Montserrat Caballé (1933)
- David Letterman (1947)
- Tom Clancy (1947)
- Claire Danes (1979)
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
15,029 days ago
(41 years, 64 days)