From the day
On the date
Friday, July 12, 1985
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The Headlines
Money Supply Up $4 Billion
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
A View to a Kill
Duran Duran
#1 at the box office
Back to the Future †
$10,555,133
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Richard Simmons (1948)
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
14,938 days ago
(40 years, 338 days)