1985
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Events
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 3 - Censorship : Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers 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 women to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
May 8 - New Coke 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.
May 20 - Propaganda : Radio Marti 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.
May 31 - US-Canadian Outbreak , 41 tornadoes in Ohio , Pennsylvania , New York and Ontario , 76 dead
July - Wreckage from the Titanic Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . The wreckage is filmed with a robotic underwater camera.
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 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 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 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro Palestinians .
October 10 - United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro 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 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 .
November 19 - Cold War : In Geneva , 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 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 .
Buckyballs were 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
Year in topic
Births
Deaths
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 , politician, candidate for Vice President of the United States
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
July 19 - Janusz A. Zajdel , Polish science fiction writer
August 12 - Manfred Winkelhock , auto racing driver
August 25 - Samantha Smith , U.S. activist
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 11 - Orson Welles , movie director
October 12 - Johnny Olson , game show announcer
October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown , scientist
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