From the day
On the date
Sunday, September 1, 1985
Memories from that day
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The Headlines
THE SPIES WHO CAME FROM NEXT DOOR
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
John Parr
#1 at the box office
Back to the Future †
$9,049,668
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Annie Ernaux (1940)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875)
- Roh Moo-hyun (1946)
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896)
- Francis William Aston (1877)
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
14,887 days ago
(40 years, 287 days)