1985 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1985?
- January 21, 1985 – The inauguration of President Ronald Reagan to a second term, already postponed a day because January 20 fell on a Sunday, becomes the second inauguration in history moved indoors because of freezing temperatures and high winds. The parade is cancelled altogether.
- January 29, 1985 – Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
- February 19, 1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
- February 20, 1985 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
- March 20, 1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
- April 19, 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- May 11, 1985 – Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England.
- May 20, 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
- June 6, 1985 – The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- July 13, 1985 – Vice President George H.W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
- July 19, 1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
- August 7, 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts.
- August 12, 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
- September 11, 1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb’s baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit
- September 19, 1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
- October 4, 1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
- October 7, 1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
- October 26, 1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
- October 29, 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- November 9, 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
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