Thursday, June 20, 1985
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News Headlines This Week: |
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Jun 4 - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
Jun 6 - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
Jun 9 - 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
Jun 9 - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
Jun 10 - 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
Jun 10 - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
Jun 15 - Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
Jun 17 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
Jun 19 - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
Jun 24 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
Jun 27 - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
Jun 29 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
Jun 30 - "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
Jun 30 - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
Jun 30 - LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
Jun 20 - Kristina Ann Craiger is born at 2:09 PM!
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Songs for 1985 |
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Shout
by Tears for Fears
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We Are The World
by USA for Africa
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Money for Nothing
by Dire Straits
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I Want to Know What Love Is
by Foreigner
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Careless Whisper
by Wham!
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The Power of Love
by Huey Lewis & the News
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Say You, Say Me
by Lionel Richie
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Can't Fight This Feeling
by REO Speedwagon
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Broken Wings
by Mr. Mister
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
by Tears for Fears
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| 1985 Prices |
US
President |
| Bread: |
$0.55/loaf |
Ronald Reagan |
| Milk: |
$1.98/gal |
US
Vice President |
| Eggs: |
$1.20/doz |
George Bush |
| Car: |
$11,902 |
Academy Award Winners
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| Gas: |
$1.20/gal |
| Best Picture: | Out Of Africa |
| | Directed By Sidney Pollack |
| Best Actor: | William Hurt |
| | in Kiss Of The Spider Woman |
| Best Actress: | Geraldine Page |
| | in Trip To Bountiful |
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| House: |
$100,800 |
| Stamp: |
$0.22/ea |
| Avg Income: |
$32,944/yr |
| Min Wage: |
$3.35/hr |
| DOW Avg: |
1,547 |
| People born on June 20 |
| 1861 - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer |
| 1566 - Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden |
| 1985 - Kristina Ann Craiger, Manassas Virginia, precious child. |
| 1634 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75) |
| 1743 - Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns |
| 1824 - John Tyler Morgan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
| 1866 - Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon) |
| 1950 - Lionel Richie singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover) |
| 1971 - William Gaines, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins) |
| 1953 - Brian J Duffy, Boston, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45, 57, 72, sk:92) |
| 1953 - Cyndi Ann Stephanie Lauper, Bkln, singer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) |
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On TV in 1985 |
| Magnum P.I. |
The Golden Girls |
Family Ties |
Night Court |
The Cosby Show |
| St. Elsewhere |
Alice |
Dallas |
Hill Street Blues |
Cheers |
| L.A. Law |
Miami Vice |
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Hot New Toys in 1985 |
| Glo Worm |
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) |
Teddy Ruxpin |
| The Care Bears |
Pound Puppies |
Rainbow Brite dolls |
| Trivial Pursuit |
She-Ra: Princess of Power |
Sweet Secrets Lockets |
| Cabbage Patch Kids |
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Top Books in 1985 |
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The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
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A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
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Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
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Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
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