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On the date
Monday, July 22, 1985
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The Headlines
ISRAEL AND CHINA QUIETLY FORM TRADE BONDS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Everytime You Go Away
Paul Young
#1 at the box office
National Lampoon's European Vacation
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Willem Dafoe (1955)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
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
14,928 days ago
(40 years, 328 days)