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On the date
Wednesday, June 5, 1985
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The Headlines
NEWS SUMMARY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Tears for Fears
#1 at the box office
Rambo: First Blood Part II
$10,228,608
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- John Maynard Keynes (1883)
- Federico García Lorca (1898)
- Mark Wahlberg (1971)
- Dennis Gabor (1900)
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1942)
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
14,975 days ago
(41 years, 10 days)