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 20, 1985 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 28, 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
- March 3, 1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
- March 15, 1985 – The end of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
- April 19, 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- May 20, 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
- May 31, 1985 – 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
- June 9, 1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he will not be released until 1991).
- July 10, 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- August 22, 1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
- September 6, 1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
- September 11, 1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb’s baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit
- October 1, 1985 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
- October 6, 1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- October 7, 1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
- November 19, 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
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