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On the date
Saturday, July 20, 1985
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The Headlines
COURT OVERTURNS KEY F.C.C. RULE COVERING CABLE
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 †
$10,315,305
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Petrarch (1304)
- Edmund Hillary (1919)
- Gregor Mendel (1822)
- Carlos Alazraqui (1962)
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864)
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
14,930 days ago
(40 years, 330 days)