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On the date
Saturday, November 9, 1985
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The Headlines
RECIPE FOR A DELUGE: TROPICAL AIR MIXED WITH HURRICANE REMNANT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Miami Vice Theme
Jan Hammer
#1 at the box office
Death Wish 3
$3,161,679
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ivan Turgenev (1818)
- Carl Sagan (1934)
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877)
- Edward VII (1841)
- Imre Kertész (1929)
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
14,818 days ago
(40 years, 218 days)