Historical Events In 1985

Aug 23 In the Southern Xinjiang, China region a 7.3 quake killed at least 71, 162 injured, about 15,000 homeless and about 85 percent of the buildings destroyed in the Wuqia-Shufu area

Aug 27 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched

Aug 16 Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn

Aug 17 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India

Aug 28 Launch of Aussat, Australia's first domestic communications satellite

Aug 20 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US

Aug 19 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei

Aug 11 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz

Aug 25 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem

Aug 08 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet

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

Aug 06 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB

Aug 21 Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.

Aug 21 Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area

Aug 01 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo

Aug 01 NASA launches space vehicle S-209

Aug 29 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission

Aug 01 Frank Faylen vaudevillian, dies at 79 of pneumonia

Aug 05 Flexible-wing glider altitude record set

Sep 08 7 die in a car &train crash in San Jose Calif

Sep 01 After 73 years the wreck of the 'Titanic' is found by Dr Robert Ballard

Sep 11 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km

Sep 20 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players

Sep 03 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth

Sep 17 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

Sep 12 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds

Sep 20 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest

Sep 22 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ

Sep 24 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)

Sep 13 John Williams introduces the new Today Show theme

Sep 08 Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

Sep 24 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees

Sep 14 Eli Hosen is born

Sep 28 NASA launches Intelsat VA

Sep 29 First of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies

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