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On the date
Thursday, December 19, 1985
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The Headlines
MAYOR RESTORES DR. GROSS TO JOB, CITING FAIRNESS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Say You, Say Me
Lionel Richie
#1 at the box office
Rocky IV
$8,445,197
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
On This Day
Aeroflot Flight 101/435 is hijacked to China by its first officer.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Édith Piaf (1915)
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906)
- Albert A. Michelson (1852)
- Pratibha Patil (1934)
- Jake Gyllenhaal (1980)
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
14,778 days ago
(40 years, 178 days)