1985 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1985?
- January 1, 1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
- January 10, 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
- February 16, 1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
- February 19, 1985 – Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
- 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 17, 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
- May 25, 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
- July 13, 1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
- August 22, 1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
- August 23, 1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 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
- September 14, 1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 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 6, 1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
- December 16, 1985 – Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.
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