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Wednesday, May 7, 1986
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The Headlines
NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1986
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys
#1 at the box office
Short Circuit
The must-have
Lazer Tag
On This Day
Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
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
Disposable Camera, Pixar & Mir Space Station.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,639 days ago
(40 years, 39 days)