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Friday, November 15, 1985
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The Headlines
FORD WILL REPURCHASE 20 MILLION MORE SHARES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
We Built This City
Starship
#1 at the box office
Once Bitten
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
Wikipedia →The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1862)
- William Herschel (1738)
- Erwin Rommel (1891)
- Mahmoud Abbas (1935)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887)
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
14,812 days ago
(40 years, 212 days)