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On the date
Monday, May 13, 1985
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The Headlines
SENTENCE IS COMMUTED IN ILLINOIS RAPE CASE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Don't You (Forget About Me)
Simple Minds
#1 at the box office
Code of Silence
$2,803,483
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope Pius IX (1792)
- Alphonse Daudet (1840)
- Maria Theresa (1717)
- Stevie Wonder (1950)
- Ronald Ross (1857)
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
14,998 days ago
(41 years, 33 days)