Events in History in 1985 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 411

• Jul 2 European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
• Jul 5 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min

• Jul 9 South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
• Jul 10 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke

• Jul 11 Refurbished space shuttle Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
• Jul 11 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Jul 12 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
• Jul 14 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
• Jul 14 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
• Jul 16 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
• Jul 18 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• Jul 19 Christa McAuliffe chosen as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle
• Jul 19 The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
• Jul 20 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
• Jul 20 The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles
• Jul 21 Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
• Jul 24 French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

• Jul 25 Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
• Jul 25 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
• Jul 25 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• Jul 25 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Jul 28 Alan Garcia sworn in as President of Peru
• Jul 29 19th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Challenger 8 launches
• Jul 30 Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-I mission
• Jul 30 Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss

• Aug 1 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)

• Aug 2 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
• Aug 2 Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 137 die
• Aug 3 "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
• Aug 3 Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
• Aug 5 Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
• Aug 6 19th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Challenger 8 lands at Edwards AFB
• Aug 6 STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad

• Aug 7 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts
• Aug 8 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
• Aug 11 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
• Aug 12 520 people die when Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Ueno, Japan, the second-deadliest aviation disaster of all time
• Aug 13 South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts
• Aug 14 Political violence by the youth begins after funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of South African Students
• Aug 15 First Iraqi air raid on Iran's main oil export terminal, Kharg Island
• Aug 15 P. W. Botha gives the "Rubicon" Speech in Durban, South Africa, disappointing many by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system
• Aug 17 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
• Aug 17 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
• Aug 17 Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
• Aug 18 Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)

• Aug 19 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
• Aug 20 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
• Aug 20 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
• Aug 20 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
• Aug 21 Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
• Aug 21 NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
• Aug 22 Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at Manchester airport, 55 killed
• Aug 23 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
• Aug 23 South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
• Aug 23 West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
• Aug 24 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
• Aug 25 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
• Aug 26 French government denies knowledge of bombing of the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland New Zealand
• Aug 27 20th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-I): Discovery 6 launches

• Aug 29 Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
• Aug 31 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois
• Aug 31 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized California captured in East Los Angeles
• Sep 1 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
• Sep 3 20th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-I): Discovery 6 returns to Earth
• Sep 6 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
• Sep 7 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83)
• Sep 8 "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers
• Sep 8 7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose, California
• Sep 8 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool
• Sep 8 Shuttle Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
• Sep 9 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
• Sep 9 Race riot in Birmingham, England
• Sep 10 U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can't be forcibly returned to parents' country if it's deemed "not in the best interests" of underage defectors
• Sep 11 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
• Sep 12 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
• Sep 13 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme

• Sep 17 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
• Sep 18 BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston
• Sep 19 8.1 earthquake in Mexico City kills an estimated 10,000 and leaves 250,000 homeless
• Sep 21 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent
• Sep 22 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
• Sep 22 The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
• Sep 24 Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
• Sep 24 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
• Sep 25 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
• Sep 25 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
• Sep 26 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
• Sep 27 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket
• Sep 27 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
• Sep 28 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-12
• Sep 28 Riots in Brixton, London, rompted by police shooting of Dorothy Groce by police
• Sep 29 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
• Sep 29 Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
• Oct 1 Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed

• Oct 3 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
• Oct 3 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution

• Oct 3 South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
• Oct 3 Walter Polovchak becomes a "free man" upon turning 18
• Oct 4 Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA
• Oct 4 Shi'ite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
• Oct 5 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
• Oct 6 Marita Koch of E Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
• Oct 6 PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, north London.
• Oct 7 21st NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-J): Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
• Oct 7 KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
• Oct 7 PLO terrorists seize Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
• Oct 8 "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
• Oct 9 Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated
• Oct 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 10 Sudan adopts interim constitution
• Oct 10 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
• Oct 11 Atlantis (51-J) returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
• Oct 11 President Reagan bans import of South African Krugerrands to the USA
• Oct 11 US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
• Oct 12 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for maintenance of STS 61A mission
• Oct 12 Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
• Oct 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 13 Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
• Oct 15 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
• Oct 15 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
• Oct 15 Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
• Oct 16 Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission

• Oct 16 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle
• Oct 17 French author Claude Simon wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Oct 25 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
• Oct 26 Hurricane Juan kills 97 in US
• Oct 27 Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die
• Oct 27 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's and 2 Renoir's
• Oct 28 Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan
• Oct 29 Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia
• Oct 30 22nd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-A): Challenger 9 launches
• Nov 1 Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
• Nov 3 President Alfonsín's Radical Burgerunie wins in Argentine legislative elections
• Nov 6 22nd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-A): Challenger 9 lands at Edwards AFB
• Nov 6 Exploratory well in Ranger, Texas, blows out, spilling 150,000 bbl (24,000 m3) of crude oil
• Nov 6 M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
• Nov 6 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California
• Nov 7 Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
• Nov 8 Atlantis moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 61-B mission
• Nov 9 Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
• Nov 11 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
• Nov 11 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
• Nov 12 Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
• Nov 12 STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
• Nov 13 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, killing 25,000 in the town of Armero
• Nov 14 Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed
• Nov 15 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes
• Nov 16 President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
• Nov 17 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM New York, N.Y.
• Nov 18 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
• Nov 18 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
• Nov 19 In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco
• Nov 19 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time
• Nov 20 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released
• Nov 22 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 61-C
• Nov 22 Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
• Nov 22 PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
• Nov 23 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
• Nov 23 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
• Nov 24 Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed
• Nov 26 23rd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-B): Atlantis 2 launches
• Nov 26 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• Nov 27 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
• Nov 28 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
• Dec 1 South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms
• Dec 1 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
• Dec 2 Philipine Chief of Staff General Fabian speaks of Benigno Aquino's murder
• Dec 3 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB

• Dec 4 President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser
• Dec 5 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
• Dec 5 Great Britain performs nuclear test
• Dec 5 Sam Shepard's "Lie of the Mind" premieres in NYC
• Dec 7 Atlantis (61-B) returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
• Dec 8 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker

• Dec 9 Phoenix, Arizona, gets 3" of snow
• Dec 10 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by US Congress
• Dec 11 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
• Dec 11 Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
• Dec 12 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
• Dec 12 DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
• Dec 12 NASA launches space vehicle S-207

• Dec 16 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-L mission

• Previous
• 1
• 2
• 3
• Next