Historical Events In 1985

Oct 16 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!)

Oct 14 On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7

Oct 02 Sidney Clute actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69

Oct 11 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

Oct 15 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds

Oct 26 The Mutijuli Aboriginal Community is granted freehold title to Ayers Rock and the Uluru National Park in the Northern Territory.

Oct 04 Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley

Oct 12 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission

Oct 07 First Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB

Oct 11 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands

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 12 Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize

Oct 04 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia

Oct 05 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game

Oct 10 Orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70

Oct 27 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's

Oct 02 George Savalas actor (Kojak), dies at 58

Oct 25 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit

Oct 10 Yul Brynner actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 70

Oct 07 PLO terrorists seize Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro

Jul 02 Proto launched to Halley's Comet

Jul 05 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of the globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min

Jul 13 The Live Aid concerts held to raise money for famine victims in Africa

Jul 25 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS

Jul 02 European Space Agency launches Giotto to Halley's Comet

Jul 16 Wayne King orch leader, dies at 84

Jul 12 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown

Jul 09 Rafael Campos actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49

Jul 07 Patti McCarty actress, dies at 64

Jul 12 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon

Jul 27 Milton Obote, the President of Uganda, is overthrown by the military

Jul 21 South African government declares State of Emergency

Jul 10 Explosion sinks Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor

Jul 20 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha

Jul 10 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke

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