
:''This article is about the year. For the song by Bowling for Soup, see 1985 (song).'' 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1982 1983 1984 - 1985(MCMLXXXV) - 1986 1987 1988 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} ==Events== ===Environmental and weather change=== * Asian Tiger Mosquito, an invasive species is first found in Houston, Texas * May 25 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge which kills approximately 10,000 people. * September 19 - 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico City. More than 9,000 people are killed, a further 30,000 injured, and 95,000 lose their homes. * November 13 - The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia, killing an estimated 23,000 people. * Ethiopian famine continues - Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief. ===January=== * January 1 - The first British mobile phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone). * January 17 - British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes. * January 20 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office. * January 23 - A debate in the United Kingdom House of Lords is televised for the first time. ===February=== * February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia. * February 5 - Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests. * February 7 - "New York, New York (song)" becomes the official city anthem of New York City. * February 11 - Pakistan cricket team bowler Wasim Akram takes ten wickets in his second Test cricket match, but New Zealand cricket team still wins. * February 14 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon. * February 19 - William Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital. ===March=== * March 2 - Government of John Cain reelected in Victoria (Australia) for second consecutive term. * March 3 - Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Kimberly-Clark Corporation's Huggies diapers, claiming that their television commercials had "crossed the line between eye-catching and pornography." * March 4 - The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. * March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the List of leaders of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Communist Party and ''de facto'' leader of the Soviet Union. * March 11 - Mohammed Al Fayed buys the London-based department store company, Harrods. * March 11 - The Prague Appeal by Jiří Dienstbier, Czech dissident. * March 14 - Five lionesses at the Singapore Zoo are put on birth control because the lion population had increased from two to 16. * March 15 - José Sarney takes oath as acting president of Brazil, because the president-elect Tancredo Neves becomes severely ill. * 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, California. * March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race. * March 31 - Wrestlemania I occurs at Madison Square Garden, New York. The Main Event features Hulk Hogan and Mr. T with Jimmy Snuka vs. Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff with Bob Orton, Jr. ===April=== * April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship. * April 1 - ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine publishes an article about the non-existent baseball prodigy Sidd Finch. * April 15 - South Africa ends its ban on Interracial couples. * April 21 - Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies after 38 days of illness that prevented him to take oath. * April 26 - High Court judge Justice Lionel Murphy is committed to stand trial on charges of trying to pevert the course of justice. * April 28 - Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits. ===May=== * May 8 - New Coke is released on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola. It will later become a major List of commercial failures with consumers. * May 11 - The FBI brings charges against suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City * May 13 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania'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 61 city residents in the resulting fire and leaving 250 people homeless. * 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 29 - In the Heysel Stadium disaster at the European Cup final in Brussels, 39 football (soccer) fans die and hundreds are injured. * May 31 - The US-Canadian Outbreak: 41 tornadoes hit in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario. By its end, 76 perish. ===June=== * June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil. * June 9 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he is not released until 1991). * June 10 - Claus von Bulow is acquitted on charges of trying to kill his wife. * June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah. * June 23 - A Boeing 747 carrying Air India Flight 182 blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard. ===July=== * July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure 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 13 - Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia and London raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia. * July 19 - Vice President of the United States George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. * July 20 - The main ship wreck site of the Spain galleon ''Nuestra Señora 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=== * August 6 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. * August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 plane en route from Tokyo to Osaka, crashed northwest of Tokyo, killing 520 of the 524 people on board. * August 22 - 55 people killed at in the Manchester air disaster at Manchester International Airport when a British Airtours Boeing 737 burst into flames after the pilot aborts the takeoff. * August 31 - Richard Ramirez arrested for the "Night Stalker" murders. ===September=== * September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. * September 5 - John Howard replaces Andrew Peacock as Australian Federal Opposition Leader. * September 6 - A Douglas DC-9 carrying Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31. * September 15 - U.S. hostage Benjamin Weir released in Lebanon. ===October=== * October 3 - Walter Polovchak, an immigrant from Ukraine, is awarded 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 hijacking and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. * October 29 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as 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 including 11 Supreme Court justices. * 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 Hoffman for these murders, as well as forgery. * November 16 - When 1,800 staff of Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa go on strike for better pay, they are dismissed and troops called in to help run the hospital. * November 18 - First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip printed in a handful of newspapers; the strip is not carried in the hometown newspaper of its creator, Bill Watterson. * November 19 - Cold War: In Geneva, President of the United States Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. * November 19 - Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion verdict from Texaco in the largest civil verdict in U.S. 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 espionage (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison). * November 23 - Gunmen hijacking EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo (when the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid). * November 26 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million. ===December=== * December 12 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 DC-8 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 dead, 248 of whom were United States servicemen returning from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai. * December 16 - In New York City, mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead while exiting 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. * December 31 - Last issue of The Columbus Citizen-Journal is distributed. ===Unknown date=== * Victoria, Australia celebrates its 150th anniversary. * Capital gains tax introduced to Australia. * Buckyballs discovered by Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. * 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. * Solarquest, space age real estate game, first published by Golden. * Free Software Foundation founded. ==Year in topic== * 1985 in film **February 8 - ''Witness'' starring Harrison Ford **February 15 - ''The Breakfast Club'' **July 3 - ''Back to the Future'' starring Michael J. Fox **December 18 - ''Brazil (movie)'' **December 18 - ''Out of Africa'' **December 20 - ''The Color Purple'' * 1985 in literature **April - DC Comics releases the epic series called ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' which changed the complete history of the DC Universe and sacrificed characters like the second Flash and Supergirl. * 1985 in music **January 28 - We Are The World is recorded, by USA for Africa. **May - Megadeth releases their first album, Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! **July 13 - Live Aid benefit concert * 1985 in rail transport * 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 - Frank Gatski, Joe Namath, Pete Rozelle, O. J. Simpson and Roger Staubach are elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. * 1985 in television **February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air. **August 19 - David Letterman interrupts 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. * 1985 in video gaming and computing **January 1 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created. **February 6 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer. ** June - Alexey Pajitnov develops ''Tetris'' at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer. ** November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows 1.0. ** The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S. ==Births== * Date Unknown - Risen Star Champion US race horse (d. 1998) * February 5 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer * February 10 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper * February 18 - Lee Boyd Malvo, convicted Beltway sniper attacks * February 28 - FeFe Dobson, Canadian singer * March 2 - Robert Iler, actor * March 13 - Emile Hirsch, actor * March 15 - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder * March 26 - Keira Knightley, actress * May 2 - Sarah Hughes, figure skater * June 26 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader * June 30 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer * October 11 - Michelle Trachtenberg, actress * October 22 - Zachary Hanson, musician * October 24 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer * November 8 - Jack Osbourne, TV star * December 5 - Frankie Muniz, actor * December 10 - Raven Symone, actress ==Deaths== * January 4 - Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895) * February 8 - Sir William Lyons, English automobile designer and entrepreneur (b. 1901) * February 11 - Henry Hathaway American actor and director (b. 1898) * February 11 - Ulysses Simpson Kay, composer * February 11 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer * February 20 - Clarence Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904) * February 27 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American politician (b. 1902) * February 27 - Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, British genealogist (b. 1919) * February 28 - Ray Ellington, British singer (b. 1916) * March 10 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician (b. 1911) * March 12 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899) * March 28 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887) * April 11 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (b. 1908) * May 5 - Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901) * May 8 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918) * May 9 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915) * May 10 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900) * May 12 - Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901) * May 16 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902) * May 17 - Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer * June 15 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927) * July 9 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911) * July 16 - Heinrich Böll, German writer (b. 1917) * July 19 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish science fiction writer (b. 1938) * August 12 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951) * August 25 - Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972) * September 6 - Isabel J. Cox, First Lady of Canada (b. 1882) * September 6 - Little Brother Montgomery, American jazz musician * September 11 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905) * September 19 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923) * October 2 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925) * October 6 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921) * October 11 - Orson Welles, American film director (b. 1915) * October 12 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910) * October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (b. 1905) * November 5 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895) * November 24 - Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b. 1911) * December 7 - Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895) * December 23 - Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b. 1899) * December 27 - Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932) * December 31 - Ricky Nelson, American singer and actor (b. 1940) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Klaus von Klitzing * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Michael S Brown, Joseph L Goldstein * Nobel Prize in literature - Claude Simon * Nobel Peace Prize - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Franco Modigliani ==Templeton Prize== * Alister Hardy == Right Livelihood Award == * Theo van Boven, Cary Fowler / Pat Mooney / Rural Advancement Fund International, Lokayan / Rajni Kothari and Duna Kör 1985 la:1985
Under births is User:Donald Gordon Oellerich, who, according to his article, "Currently a high school student, in the future he will undoubtedly contribute greatly to the world." He hasn't yet, however, so I question why his birth should be noted here (I think it's a user page, personally). user:Bryan Derksen It's been about three months since I asked this question, so I'm going to assume silence implies consent. Removing him from the births and moving him into the User subspace. User:Bryan Derksen :I think "Andrew", Matthew Dean Bussinger and Galen Daniel Maly should probably also be removed, along with 1987's Jaxon Thomas. I couldn't find anything interesting about the latter two via Google, and Andrew is a redirect to the saint. --User:Rbrwr 18:59, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC) ::I wandered here in maintaining List of people by name: Mad-Mam, trying to find out who if anything Galen Daniel Maly might be. (He won something in one, maybe two science fairs.) I'm going to knock him off Mad-Mam, and the others (Matthew Dean Bussinger, Jaxon Thomas) mentioned here, if they are also on List of people by name's tree of pages. A heads up, or editing within that tree, would be welcome if someone decided or decides any of the them should be restored here. --User:Jerzy 17:39, 2004 Jan 16 (UTC) ----------------------- Explain who this Mark Littler is before you post his birthdate here. AFAIK this isn't someone famous. User:Oberiko 16:09, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC) == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:49, 7 May 2004 (UTC) ---- Are the days of the week really necessary? And why do we have to repeat that we're talking about 1985 on every line? This is the 1985 article, I think it's obvious that the dats given are from 1985.
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1985
:''This article is about the year. For the song by Bowling for Soup, see 1985 (song).'' 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1982 1983 1984 - 1985(MCMLXXXV) - 1986 1987 1988 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} ==Events== ===Environmental and weather change=== * Asian Tiger Mosquito, an invasive species is first found in Houston, Texas * May 25 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge which kills approximately 10,000 people. * September 19 - 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico City. More than 9,000 people are killed, a further 30,000 injured, and 95,000 lose their homes. * November 13 - The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia, killing an estimated 23,000 people. * Ethiopian famine continues - Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief. ===January=== * January 1 - The first British mobile phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone). * January 17 - British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes. * January 20 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office. * January 23 - A debate in the United Kingdom House of Lords is televised for the first time. ===February=== * February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia. * February 5 - Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests. * February 7 - "New York, New York (song)" becomes the official city anthem of New York City. * February 11 - Pakistan cricket team bowler Wasim Akram takes ten wickets in his second Test cricket match, but New Zealand cricket team still wins. * February 14 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon. * February 19 - William Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital. ===March=== * March 2 - Government of John Cain reelected in Victoria (Australia) for second consecutive term. * March 3 - Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Kimberly-Clark Corporation's Huggies diapers, claiming that their television commercials had "crossed the line between eye-catching and pornography." * March 4 - The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. * March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the List of leaders of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Communist Party and ''de facto'' leader of the Soviet Union. * March 11 - Mohammed Al Fayed buys the London-based department store company, Harrods. * March 11 - The Prague Appeal by Jiří Dienstbier, Czech dissident. * March 14 - Five lionesses at the Singapore Zoo are put on birth control because the lion population had increased from two to 16. * March 15 - José Sarney takes oath as acting president of Brazil, because the president-elect Tancredo Neves becomes severely ill. * 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, California. * March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race. * March 31 - Wrestlemania I occurs at Madison Square Garden, New York. The Main Event features Hulk Hogan and Mr. T with Jimmy Snuka vs. Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff with Bob Orton, Jr. ===April=== * April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship. * April 1 - ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine publishes an article about the non-existent baseball prodigy Sidd Finch. * April 15 - South Africa ends its ban on Interracial couples. * April 21 - Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies after 38 days of illness that prevented him to take oath. * April 26 - High Court judge Justice Lionel Murphy is committed to stand trial on charges of trying to pevert the course of justice. * April 28 - Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits. ===May=== * May 8 - New Coke is released on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola. It will later become a major List of commercial failures with consumers. * May 11 - The FBI brings charges against suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City * May 13 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania'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 61 city residents in the resulting fire and leaving 250 people homeless. * 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 29 - In the Heysel Stadium disaster at the European Cup final in Brussels, 39 football (soccer) fans die and hundreds are injured. * May 31 - The US-Canadian Outbreak: 41 tornadoes hit in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario. By its end, 76 perish. ===June=== * June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil. * June 9 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he is not released until 1991). * June 10 - Claus von Bulow is acquitted on charges of trying to kill his wife. * June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah. * June 23 - A Boeing 747 carrying Air India Flight 182 blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard. ===July=== * July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure 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 13 - Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia and London raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia. * July 19 - Vice President of the United States George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. * July 20 - The main ship wreck site of the Spain galleon ''Nuestra Señora 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=== * August 6 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. * August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 plane en route from Tokyo to Osaka, crashed northwest of Tokyo, killing 520 of the 524 people on board. * August 22 - 55 people killed at in the Manchester air disaster at Manchester International Airport when a British Airtours Boeing 737 burst into flames after the pilot aborts the takeoff. * August 31 - Richard Ramirez arrested for the "Night Stalker" murders. ===September=== * September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. * September 5 - John Howard replaces Andrew Peacock as Australian Federal Opposition Leader. * September 6 - A Douglas DC-9 carrying Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31. * September 15 - U.S. hostage Benjamin Weir released in Lebanon. ===October=== * October 3 - Walter Polovchak, an immigrant from Ukraine, is awarded 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 hijacking and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. * October 29 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as 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 including 11 Supreme Court justices. * 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 Hoffman for these murders, as well as forgery. * November 16 - When 1,800 staff of Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa go on strike for better pay, they are dismissed and troops called in to help run the hospital. * November 18 - First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip printed in a handful of newspapers; the strip is not carried in the hometown newspaper of its creator, Bill Watterson. * November 19 - Cold War: In Geneva, President of the United States Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. * November 19 - Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion verdict from Texaco in the largest civil verdict in U.S. 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 espionage (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison). * November 23 - Gunmen hijacking EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo (when the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid). * November 26 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million. ===December=== * December 12 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 DC-8 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 dead, 248 of whom were United States servicemen returning from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai. * December 16 - In New York City, mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead while exiting 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. * December 31 - Last issue of The Columbus Citizen-Journal is distributed. ===Unknown date=== * Victoria, Australia celebrates its 150th anniversary. * Capital gains tax introduced to Australia. * Buckyballs discovered by Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. * 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. * Solarquest, space age real estate game, first published by Golden. * Free Software Foundation founded. ==Year in topic== * 1985 in film **February 8 - ''Witness'' starring Harrison Ford **February 15 - ''The Breakfast Club'' **July 3 - ''Back to the Future'' starring Michael J. Fox **December 18 - ''Brazil (movie)'' **December 18 - ''Out of Africa'' **December 20 - ''The Color Purple'' * 1985 in literature **April - DC Comics releases the epic series called ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' which changed the complete history of the DC Universe and sacrificed characters like the second Flash and Supergirl. * 1985 in music **January 28 - We Are The World is recorded, by USA for Africa. **May - Megadeth releases their first album, Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! **July 13 - Live Aid benefit concert * 1985 in rail transport * 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 - Frank Gatski, Joe Namath, Pete Rozelle, O. J. Simpson and Roger Staubach are elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. * 1985 in television **February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air. **August 19 - David Letterman interrupts 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. * 1985 in video gaming and computing **January 1 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created. **February 6 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer. ** June - Alexey Pajitnov develops ''Tetris'' at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer. ** November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows 1.0. ** The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S. ==Births== * Date Unknown - Risen Star Champion US race horse (d. 1998) * February 5 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer * February 10 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper * February 18 - Lee Boyd Malvo, convicted Beltway sniper attacks * February 28 - FeFe Dobson, Canadian singer * March 2 - Robert Iler, actor * March 13 - Emile Hirsch, actor * March 15 - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder * March 26 - Keira Knightley, actress * May 2 - Sarah Hughes, figure skater * June 26 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader * June 30 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer * October 11 - Michelle Trachtenberg, actress * October 22 - Zachary Hanson, musician * October 24 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer * November 8 - Jack Osbourne, TV star * December 5 - Frankie Muniz, actor * December 10 - Raven Symone, actress ==Deaths== * January 4 - Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895) * February 8 - Sir William Lyons, English automobile designer and entrepreneur (b. 1901) * February 11 - Henry Hathaway American actor and director (b. 1898) * February 11 - Ulysses Simpson Kay, composer * February 11 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer * February 20 - Clarence Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904) * February 27 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American politician (b. 1902) * February 27 - Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, British genealogist (b. 1919) * February 28 - Ray Ellington, British singer (b. 1916) * March 10 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician (b. 1911) * March 12 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899) * March 28 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887) * April 11 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (b. 1908) * May 5 - Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901) * May 8 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918) * May 9 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915) * May 10 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900) * May 12 - Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901) * May 16 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902) * May 17 - Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer * June 15 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927) * July 9 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911) * July 16 - Heinrich Böll, German writer (b. 1917) * July 19 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish science fiction writer (b. 1938) * August 12 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951) * August 25 - Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972) * September 6 - Isabel J. Cox, First Lady of Canada (b. 1882) * September 6 - Little Brother Montgomery, American jazz musician * September 11 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905) * September 19 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923) * October 2 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925) * October 6 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921) * October 11 - Orson Welles, American film director (b. 1915) * October 12 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910) * October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (b. 1905) * November 5 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895) * November 24 - Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b. 1911) * December 7 - Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895) * December 23 - Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b. 1899) * December 27 - Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932) * December 31 - Ricky Nelson, American singer and actor (b. 1940) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Klaus von Klitzing * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Michael S Brown, Joseph L Goldstein * Nobel Prize in literature - Claude Simon * Nobel Peace Prize - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Franco Modigliani ==Templeton Prize== * Alister Hardy == Right Livelihood Award == * Theo van Boven, Cary Fowler / Pat Mooney / Rural Advancement Fund International, Lokayan / Rajni Kothari and Duna Kör 1985 la:1985
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Under births is User:Donald Gordon Oellerich, who, according to his article, "Currently a high school student, in the future he will undoubtedly contribute greatly to the world." He hasn't yet, however, so I question why his birth should be noted here (I think it's a user page, personally). user:Bryan Derksen It's been about three months since I asked this question, so I'm going to assume silence implies consent. Removing him from the births and moving him into the User subspace. User:Bryan Derksen :I think "Andrew", Matthew Dean Bussinger and Galen Daniel Maly should probably also be removed, along with 1987's Jaxon Thomas. I couldn't find anything interesting about the latter two via Google, and Andrew is a redirect to the saint. --User:Rbrwr 18:59, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC) ::I wandered here in maintaining List of people by name: Mad-Mam, trying to find out who if anything Galen Daniel Maly might be. (He won something in one, maybe two science fairs.) I'm going to knock him off Mad-Mam, and the others (Matthew Dean Bussinger, Jaxon Thomas) mentioned here, if they are also on List of people by name's tree of pages. A heads up, or editing within that tree, would be welcome if someone decided or decides any of the them should be restored here. --User:Jerzy 17:39, 2004 Jan 16 (UTC) ----------------------- Explain who this Mark Littler is before you post his birthdate here. AFAIK this isn't someone famous. User:Oberiko 16:09, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC) == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:49, 7 May 2004 (UTC) ---- Are the days of the week really necessary? And why do we have to repeat that we're talking about 1985 on every line? This is the 1985 article, I think it's obvious that the dats given are from 1985.
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