From the day
On the date
Friday, June 21, 1985
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Heaven
Bryan Adams
#1 at the box office
Cocoon
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Braathens SAFE Flight 139 is hijacked on approach to Oslo Airport, Fornebu. Special forces arrest the hijacker and there are no fatalities.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)
- Lana Del Rey (1985)
- Benazir Bhutto (1953)
- Chris Pratt (1979)
- Joko Widodo (1961)
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
14,959 days ago
(40 years, 359 days)