From the day
On the date
Monday, October 21, 1985
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The Headlines
U.S. CANDY MAKERS STRUGGLING
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Saving All My Love for You
Whitney Houston
#1 at the box office
Jagged Edge
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Kim Kardashian (1980)
- Carrie Fisher (1956)
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
14,837 days ago
(40 years, 237 days)