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On the date
Sunday, June 23, 1985
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The Headlines
THE REDISCOVERY OF SILVER LAKE
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
A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, killing two and injuring four. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alan Turing (1912)
- Zinedine Zidane (1972)
- Anna Akhmatova (1889)
- Edward VIII (1894)
- Martti Ahtisaari (1937)
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
14,957 days ago
(40 years, 357 days)