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Saturday, July 13, 1985
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The Headlines
FOREIGN AID BILL MAY BE VETOED OVER STRICTURES
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)
On This Day
Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
Wikipedia →The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- 1841 (1851)
- Harrison Ford (1942)
- Wole Soyinka (1934)
- Patrick Stewart (1940)
- Pope Clement X (1590)
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
14,937 days ago
(40 years, 337 days)