Events
DateEvent
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