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On the date
Monday, October 7, 1985
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The Headlines
FREE TRADE STIRS DOUBT IN ONTARIO
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Oh Sheila
Ready for the World
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
Wikipedia →The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Vladimir Putin (1952)
- Niels Bohr (1885)
- Heinrich Himmler (1900)
- Desmond Tutu (1931)
- María Corina Machado (1967)
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
14,851 days ago
(40 years, 251 days)