Historical Events In 1985

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"

Mar 10 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Natalia Bestemianova &Andrei Bukin (USSR)

Mar 13 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)

Mar 06 Méxican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar

Mar 18 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC

Mar 03 Near Coast of Central Chile a 7.8earthquate killed at least 177 people killed, 2,575 injured and extensive damage in central Chile, including the cities of San Antonio, Valparaiso, Vina del Mar, Santiago and Rancagua

Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 02 US approves screening test for AIDS

Aug 10 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million

Aug 17 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR

Aug 23 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

Aug 31 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA

Aug 02 NASA launches space vehicle S-209

Aug 12 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)

Aug 26 Ryan White, the 13-year-old AIDS patient barred from attending school in Kokomo, Indiana, begins attending middle school via computer.

Aug 24 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather

Aug 23 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3 29.46) in Berlin

Aug 02 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo

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