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On the date
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
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The Headlines
CLUES TO SUICIDE: A BRAIN CHEMICAL IS IMPLICATED
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Oh Sheila
Ready for the World
#1 at the box office
Commando
$6,540,130
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Sigourney Weaver (1949)
- Ursula von der Leyen (1958)
- Matt Damon (1970)
- Bruno Mars (1985)
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
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
14,850 days ago
(40 years, 250 days)