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Event
August 28 1985
Alexander Abramsky Died
1985
Esther Allan Died
1985
William Alwyn Died
1985
Rodolfo Arízaga Died
1985
Milo Cipra Died
1985
Kenny Clarke Died
1985
Paul Creston Died
1985
Mohammed Fairouz Was Born
1985
Czesław Marek Died
1985
Karl Marx Died
1985
Lovro von Matačić Died
1985
Frederick May Died
1985
Marcel Mihalovici Died
1985
Léon Orthel Died
1985
Javier Pérez Garrido Was Born
1985
Hermann Reutter Died
1985
Cemal Reşit Rey Died
1985
Hilding Rosenberg Died
1985
Dane Rudhyar Died
1985
Roger Sessions Died
1985
Michael Waller Was Born
January 01 1985
Harrison Makes First Mobile Phone Call
1985
Benjamin Yeo Was Born
January 07 1985
Japan Launches First Interplanetary Probe
January 10 1985
Sinclair Electric Vehicle Launched, Fails, Becomes Collectible
January 10 1985
Sandinista Daniel Ortega Elected Nicaraguan President
January 13 1985
A Train Crashes In Ethiopia
January 28 1985
Supergroup Records We Are The World, To Help Ethiopia
February 05 1985
Rome And Carthage Sign Treaty In Tunis
February 16 1985
Hezbollah Is Founded
February 19 1985
Shroeder Gets First Artificial Heart
February 19 1985
148 Killed In Mount Oiz Crash
February 19 1985
EastEnders Broadcasts For The First Time
February 28 1985
Provisional IRA Attack Kills Nine Constables
March 03 1985
Greatest Industrial Dispute Ends Without Peace
March 03 1985
Earthquake Strikes At Chile, 177 Killed
March 04 1985
FDA Approves Blood Test For HIV
March 07 1985
'We Are The World' Released Internationally
March 08 1985
Failed Beirut Assassination Kills 45 Others
March 13 1985
Football Match Ignites Kenilworth Road Riots
March 15 1985
Brazilian Military Government Ends
March 15 1985
1st Internet Domain Is Symbolics.com
March 16 1985
Newsman Anderson Taken Hostage In Beirut
March 17 1985
LA Murder Spree Starts With 2 Murders
March 18 1985
First Episode Of Neighbours Broadcast
March 20 1985
Libby Riddles Wins Iditarod
March 20 1985
Rick Hansen Circumnavigated The Globe
March 31 1985
First WrestleMania Takes Place In New York
April 07 1985
Gorbachev Announces Missile Deployment Halt
April 19 1985
Russia Tests Nukes At Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk
April 20 1985
ATF Raids Compounds In Northern Arkansas
April 23 1985
Negative Response To Release Of New Coke
April 23 1985
Coca-Cola Comany Releases New Coke
May 11 1985
Bradford City Stadium Fire Kills 56
May 13 1985
Philadelphia MOVE Headquarters Bombed By Police
May 20 1985
Radio Marti Begins Broadcasting In Cuba
May 25 1985
Bangladesh Cyclone, Approximately 10,000 Dead
May 29 1985
Heysel Stadium Disaster: Wall Collapse Kills 39
May 29 1985
Amputee Steve Fonyo Completes Cross-Canada Marathon
May 31 1985
1985 Northern Tornado Outbreak Kills 76
June 06 1985
Josef Mengele's Remains Found In Embu, Brazil
June 09 1985
Sutherland Kidnapped - Not Released Until 1991
June 14 1985
Lebanes Islamists Hijack TWA Flight 847
June 15 1985
Man Attacked Rembrandt's Painting Danae With Sulfuric Acid And A Knife
June 17 1985
Space Shuttle Carry's First Arab And Muslim
June 19 1985
Disguised Salvadoran Revolutinaries Attack Zona Rosa
June 23 1985
Terrorist Bomb Destroys Air India Flight 182
June 27 1985
U.S. 66 Is No Longer An United States Highway
June 30 1985
39 Americans Are Held Hostage In Beirut
July 07 1985
Becker: Youngest Player To Win Wimbledon
July 10 1985
France Bombs Greenpeace Ship; One Man Killed
July 10 1985
Coca-Cola Classic Returns After Failure of New Coke
July 13 1985
The Live Aid Concert Takes Place Worldwide
July 13 1985
Vice President Bush Becomes Acting President
July 17 1985
French And German Former Heads Of State Found EUREKA Network
July 19 1985
Italian Dam Collapses, Kills 268
July 20 1985
Aruba Secedes From Netherlands Antilles
August 02 1985
Delta Flight Crashes And Kills 137
August 07 1985
3 Men Are Japan's 1st Astronauts
August 07 1985
White House Farm Murders In England
August 12 1985
Japan Airlines Flight 123 Crashes
August 22 1985
Manchester Airport Multiple Deaths Fire Disaster
August 23 1985
A Top Spy Defects To East Germany
August 27 1985
Nigerian Government Overthrown
September 01 1985
American-French Expedition Locates Titanic Wreck
September 04 1985
First Fullerene Colecule Of Carbon Buckminsterfullerene Discovered
September 06 1985
Midwest Airlines Crashes Killing 31
September 11 1985
Pete Rose Breaks Ty Cobb's Baseball Record
September 13 1985
Super Mario Brother In Japan Start Series
September 14 1985
Malaysian Penang Bridge Opens To Traffic
September 19 1985
A Strong Earthquake Hits Mexico City
September 19 1985
Gore Vs Zappa Over Rock Music
September 20 1985
Capital Gains Tax Introduced In Australia
October 01 1985
Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters Bombed By Israel
October 03 1985
Maiden Flight Of Atlantis
October 04 1985
Free Software Foundation Founded In US
October 06 1985
Blakelock Murdered In London Riots
October 07 1985
PLO Hijacks Achille Lauro
October 07 1985
300 Dead In Worst North American Landslide
October 10 1985
Navy Fighter Intercept An Egyptian Plane
October 26 1985
Uluru Is Returned To Aborigines By Australian Government
October 29 1985
Winner Announced In Election In Liberia
October 30 1985
Challenger Shuttle Begins Final Mission
November 06 1985
Leftist Guerrillas Capture Bogota Palace
November 09 1985
Kasparov Becomes Youngest World Chess Champion
November 13 1985
Nevado Del Ruiz Erupts Killing 23,000 People
November 13 1985
Suarez: Miami's First Cuban-born Mayor
November 15 1985
Researcher Injured When Unabomber Package Explodes In Michigan
November 15 1985
British And Irish Reach Agreement At Hillsborough
November 19 1985
Reagan And Gorbachev Meet In Geneva
November 19 1985
Pennzoil Wins Largest Civil Verdict In U.S
November 19 1985
Malaysian Police Attack Mahmud Led Islamic Sect
November 20 1985
Microsoft Windows 1.0 Is Released
November 21 1985
Jonathan Pollard Arrested For Spying
November 23 1985
Egyptair Flight Stormed In Malta
December 12 1985
256 Die In Plane Crash In Newfoundland
December 16 1985
Gotti Orders Castellano And Bilotti NY Deaths
December 20 1985
Pope Starts World Youth Day
December 27 1985
Palestinians Killed 18 In Airport In Europe
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