From the day
On the date
Wednesday, May 1, 1985
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The Headlines
FILLING BIG HOPES WITH SMALL GRANTS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
We Are the World
USA for Africa
#1 at the box office
Code of Silence
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
15,010 days ago
(41 years, 45 days)