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See also:
1985_in_aviation
1985_in_film
1985_in_literature
1985_in_music
1985_in_sports
1985_in_television
1985_in_aviation
Events
January-February
January_17 - British_Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes.
February_6 - Steve_Wozniak leaves Apple_Computer
February_7 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New_York_City.
February_11 - Wasim_Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket match, but New Zealand still wins.
February_14 - CNN reporter Jeremy_Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
February_19 - Artificial_heart patient William_Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
March
for claiming that their television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."
March_4- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since on U.S'. blood_supply.
March_11 - Mikhail_Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.
March_16 - Associated_Press newsman Terry_Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would later be released on December_4, 1991.
March_17 - Serial_killer Richard_Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los_Angeles,_California.
March_20 - Libby_Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog_sled race.
May
May_8 - ''New_Coke'' is released on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola. It will later become a major flop with consumers
May_13 - Philadelphia's mayor orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
begins broadcasting to Cuba.
May_23 - Thomas_Patrick_Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet_Union.
May_25 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical_cyclone and storm_surge which kills approximately 10,000 people.
May_29 - The Heysel_Stadium_disaster, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured.
hit in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New_York and Ontario. By its end, 76 perish.
July-August
July_10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow_Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.
July 10 - After a storm of controversy surrounding a change in its cola's formula (see New_Coke), Coca-Cola re-introduces the old formula as "Coca-Cola Classic."
July_19 - US Vice President George_H._W._Bush announces that New_Hampshire teacher Christa_McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space_Shuttle (see Space Shuttle ''Challenger'').
July_20 - The main ship_wreck site of the Spanish galleon ''Nuestra_Senora_de_Atocha'' (which sank in 1622) is found 40 miles off the coast of Key_West,_Florida by treasure hunters who soon begin to raise $400 million in coins and silver.
August_6 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic_bombing of the city.
September-October
September_1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the ''RMS_Titanic''.
September_6 - A Douglas_DC-9 carrying Midwest_Express_Airlines_Flight_105 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee,_Wisconsin killing 31.
October_3 - Walter_Polovchak, an immigrant from Ukraine who had been fighting for citizenship, is awarded a U.S. citizenship
October_7 - The passenger ship ''Achille_Lauro'' is hijacked by Palestinians.
October_10 - United_States_Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the ''Achille_Lauro'' cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily were they are arrested.
October_29 - Major General Samuel_K._Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
November
November_6 - In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April_19_Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. By the next day 115 people are dead, 11 of them Supreme Court justices).
November_13 - The volcano Nevado_del_Ruiz erupts in Colombia, killing an estimated 23,000 people.
November_15 - In separate events, mail_bombs kill two people in Salt_Lake_City,_Utah; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring Mark_Hoffman. The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Mark_Hoffman for these murders, as well as forgery.
, US President Ronald_Reagan and Soviet_Union leader Mikhail_Gorbachev meet for the first time.
November 19 - Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict from Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history (Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty_Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty).
November_21 - United_States_Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan_Jay_Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
November_23 - Gunmen hijack Egypt_Air_Flight_648 while en route from Athens to Cairo (when the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid).
November_26 - US President Ronald_Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random_House for a record US$3 million.
December
December_16 - In New_York_City, mafia bosses Paul_Castellano and Thomas_Bilotti are shot dead when exiting from Sparks Steak House, making hit organizer, John_Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family.
December_27 - Palestinian guerrillas kill twenty people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
December 27 - American naturalist Dian_Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
Unknown dates
Buckyballs discovered by Harold_Kroto, Robert_Curl and Richard_Smalley
First syndication of Calvin_and_Hobbes by Bill_Watterson
GNU_Manifesto first written by Richard_Stallman
Western_Sahara is admitted to the Organization_of_African_Unity; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest
Ethiopian_famine continues -- Live_Aid attempts to raise funds for famine_relief
Fictional events
October_26 - Date of the first time travel experiments in the Back_to_the_Future films.
Year in topic
1985_in_film
''Out_of_Africa''
''The_Color_Purple''
''Witness'' starring Harrison_Ford
''Back_to_the_Future''
1985_in_literature
1985_in_music
January_28 - "We_Are_The_World" is recorded, by USA for Africa.
July_13 - Live_Aid benefit concert
1985_in_sports
January_14 - Martina_Navratilova wins her 100th tennis tournament.
January_20 - Super_Bowl_XIX San_Francisco_49ers (38) def. Miami_Dolphins (16)
January_23 - O._J._Simpson becomes the first Heisman_Trophy winner elected to the Football_Hall_of_Fame.
1985_in_television
February_8 - After 6-1/2 years, the television_series ''The_Dukes_of_Hazzard'' goes off the air.
August_19 - David_Letterman interupts the ''Today_Show'' with a megaphone while both shows are on the air. Letterman leaned out the window of his building and announced "My name is Larry Grossman (then president of NBC News) and I'm not wearing any pants!". The Today_Show was taping an interview several stories below.
NBC becomes the first commercial television network to use satellite interconnection for its stations.
Births
February_18 - Lee_Boyd_Malvo, convicted Beltway sniper
February_20 - Yulia Volkova, member of t.A.T.u.
March_2 - Robert_Iler, actor
March_26 - Keira_Knightley, actress
May_2 - Sarah_Hughes, figure_skater
October_24 - Wayne_Rooney, English football star
October_22 - Zachary_Hanson, musician
November_10 - Giovonnie_Samuels, television actress
Deaths
January-August
February_8 - Sir William_Lyons, founder of Jaguar Motors
February_11 - Heinz_Eric_Roemheld, composer.
February 11 - Henry_Hathaway actor/director.
February 11 - Ulysses_Simpson_Kay, composer.
February_20 - Clarence_Nash, Disney voice_actor
February_27 - Henry_Cabot_Lodge,_Jr., politician, candidate for Vice_President_of_the_United_States
February_27 - Sir Iain_Moncreiffe_of_that_Ilk, British genealogist
March_10 - Konstantin_Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
April_11 - Enver_Hoxha, dictator of Albania
May_8 - Theodore_Sturgeon, science_fiction writer
May_9 - Edmond_O'Brien, actor
May_10 - Chester_Gould, cartoonist
May_12 - Jean_Dubuffet, painter
May_16 - Margaret_Hamilton, actress
May_17 - Abe_Burrows, songwriter, composer, writer
June_15 - Andy_Stanfield, American athlete
July_19 - Janusz_A._Zajdel, Polish science_fiction writer
August_12 - Manfred_Winkelhock, auto_racing driver
August_25 - Samantha_Smith, U.S. activist
September-December
September_6 - Isabel Cox-Meighen, First Lady of Canada
September 6 - Little_Brother_Montgomery, musician
October_2 - Rock_Hudson, actor, died of AIDS
October_6 - Murder of PC Keith_Blakelock in the Broadwater_Farm_Riot, London
October 6 - Nelson_Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)
October_11 - Orson_Welles, movie director
October_12 - Johnny_Olson, game_show announcer
October_22 - Thomas_Townsend_Brown, scientist
November_24 - Big_Joe_Turner, blues singer (b. 1911)
Physics - Klaus_von_Klitzing
Chemistry - Herbert_A_Hauptman, Jerome_Karle
Medicine - Michael_S_Brown, Joseph_L_Goldstein
Literature - Claude_Simon
Peace - International_Physicians_for_the_Prevention_of_Nuclear_War
Economics - Franco_Modigliani
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