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On the date
Tuesday, November 19, 1985
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The Headlines
2D-HOME DEDUCTION IS BACKED
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
We Built This City
Starship
#1 at the box office
King Solomon's Mines
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
Wikipedia →Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
Wikipedia →Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- James A. Garfield (1831)
- Jodie Foster (1962)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711)
- Charles I of England (1600)
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
14,809 days ago
(40 years, 209 days)