Historical Events In 1985

Mar 21 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed

Mar 10 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)

Mar 01 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center

Mar 19 In Bolivia a 5.5 earthquake killed 2 people and damage in the Monteagudo area.

Mar 28 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues", premieres in New York NY

Mar 28 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad

Mar 30 Sally Anne Atkinson becomes Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the first Liberal and first woman to do so.

Mar 17 Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago

Mar 03 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike

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

Mar 21 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame

Mar 10 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)

Mar 10 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"

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

Mar 24 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)

Mar 07 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released

Mar 06 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King &I"

Mar 23 Julian Lennon's first concert (San Antonio TX)

Mar 10 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (USSR)

Mar 31 El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election

Mar 16 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

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

Mar 17 Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day.

Mar 23 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission

Mar 28 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet

Mar 04 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA

Mar 14 11th People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby wins 4 awards

Mar 09 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed

Mar 03 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres

Mar 24 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)

Mar 11 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

Mar 01 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter

Mar 19 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing

Mar 09 The most requested movie in history,"Gone With The Wind", went on sale in video stores across the U.S. for the first time.

Mar 04 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

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