Historical Events in March 1985

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Mar 1 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center

Singer & Actress Liza Minnelli — Singer & Actress
Liza Minnelli

Television Premiere

Mar 3 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis premieres on ABC TV in the US

Mar 3 "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
Mar 3 Bill Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
Mar 3 National Union of Mine Workers in Britain ends a 51 week strike
Mar 4 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
Mar 4 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
Mar 4 WWII veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

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Mar 5 NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons

Ice Hockey Great Mike Bossy — Ice Hockey Great
Mike Bossy

Mar 5 Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar
Mar 5 38th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The Killing Fields" Best Film, Wim Wenders Best Director
Mar 6 Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame

Boxing Title Fight

Mar 6 Future undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes at 1:47 in round 1 of 4 in Albany, NY in his first professional fight

Event of Interest

Mar 6 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I"

Mar 6 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
Mar 7 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
Mar 8 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
Mar 8 6th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats St. John's, 92-80
Mar 9 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (East Germany)
Mar 9 26th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Auburn beats Alabama, 53-49
Mar 10 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
Mar 10 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
Mar 10 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
Mar 10 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
Mar 10 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
Mar 10 32nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats North Carolina, 57-54

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Mar 11 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev — Soviet General Secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko — Soviet General Secretary
Konstantin Chernenko

Event of Interest

Mar 12 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points

NBA Legend Larry Bird — NBA Legend
Larry Bird

Film and TV Awards

Mar 12 11th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Joan Collins & Linda Evans win (TV)

Actor and Director Clint Eastwood — Actor and Director
Clint Eastwood

Actress Meryl Streep — Actress
Meryl Streep

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Mar 13 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow

Mar 13 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
Mar 14 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards

Boxing Title Fight

Mar 15 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes — WBC Heavyweight Champion
Larry Holmes

Mar 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 15 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
Mar 16 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

Event of Interest

Mar 16 Two-time Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain is convicted of embezzlement and drug trafficking; sentenced to 25 years but conviction later reversed

MLB Pitcher Denny McLain — MLB Pitcher
Denny McLain

Mar 17 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
Mar 18 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC for $3.5 billion, first transfer of ownership of a TV network

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Mar 18 Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle

Olympic Executive and Commissioner of Baseball Peter Ueberroth — Olympic Executive and Commissioner of Baseball
Peter Ueberroth

Baseball Legend Mickey Mantle — Baseball Legend
Mickey Mantle

MLB Legend Willie Mays — MLB Legend
Willie Mays

Mar 19 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
Mar 19 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
Mar 19 US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX "Peacekeeper" intercontinental ballistic missile
Mar 20 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race

Hall of Fame

Mar 21 Arthur Ashe is nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame

Tennis Player Arthur Ashe — Tennis Player
Arthur Ashe

Mar 21 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
Mar 22 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-10
Mar 23 Space Shuttle Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
Mar 23 Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 24 5th Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards: "Bolero" wins
Mar 24 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)

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Mar 24 Third straight WTA Tour Championship for tennis legend Martina Navratilova; beats Helena Suková 6–3, 7–5, 6–4 at Madison Square Garden, NYC

Tennis Player Martina Navratilova — Tennis Player
Martina Navratilova

Academy Awards

Mar 25 57th Academy Awards: "Amadeus", F. Murray Abraham & Sally Field win

Actor F. Murray Abraham — Actor
F. Murray Abraham

Actress Sally Field — Actress
Sally Field

Mar 25 Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General

Event of Interest

Mar 26 Pope John Paul II proclaims first ever World Youth Day

264th Pope John Paul II — 264th Pope
John Paul II

Event of Interest

Mar 27 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Actor Billy Dee Williams — Actor
Billy Dee Williams

Mar 28 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley

Theater Premiere

Mar 28 Neil Simon's play "Biloxi Blues" premieres in NYC

Playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon — Playwright and screenwriter
Neil Simon

Mar 28 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
Mar 29 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece

NHL Record

Mar 29 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist

Ice Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky — Ice Hockey Great
Wayne Gretzky

Mar 30 139th Grand National: Welsh jockey Hywel Davies aboard 11-year old 50/1 outsider Last Suspect wins by 1½ lengths from Mr. Snugfit
Mar 30 Ireland beats England, 13-10 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 10th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 6th triple Crown
Mar 31 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
Mar 31 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia, 70-65; Monarchs' Tracy Claxton, MOP
Mar 31 El Salvador's President José Napoleón Duarte' Christian Democratic Party wins election

WrestleMania

Mar 31 WrestleMania I, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Hulk Hogan & Mr T beat Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorf

Professional Wrestler Hulk Hogan — Professional Wrestler
Hulk Hogan

Mar 31 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Calvin Peete shoots final round 66 to win by 3 strokes from D. A. Weibring; Peete only player to break par in all 4 rounds

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Historical Events in March 1985

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Film and TV Awards

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Hall of Fame

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