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On the date
Wednesday, August 14, 1985
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The Headlines
NAVY ENDS BAN ON CONTRACTING WITH DYNAMICS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Shout
Tears for Fears
#1 at the box office
Back to the Future †
$7,252,140
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- John Galsworthy (1867)
- Halle Berry (1966)
- Mila Kunis (1983)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
- Pope Pius VII (1742)
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
14,905 days ago
(40 years, 305 days)