From the day
On the date
Friday, April 19, 1985
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The Headlines
U. S., CITING VIOLATIONS, PLANS TO DENY $22 MILLION FOR OLD WILLOWBROOK SITE
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
$4,052,568
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- José Echegaray (1832)
- Kate Hudson (1979)
- James Franco (1978)
- Mswati III (1968)
- Getúlio Vargas (1882)
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
15,022 days ago
(41 years, 57 days)