Historical Events In 1985
Jan 26 42th Golden Globes Amadeus wins
Jan 25 Test debut of Wasim Akram, vs New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
Jan 15 Tancredo Neves becomes first elected President of Brazil in 21 years
Jan 17 Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
Feb 07 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York NY
Feb 01 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)
Feb 23 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
Feb 04 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
Feb 15 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
Feb 24 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
Feb 01 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs England)
Feb 11 Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins
Feb 19 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
Feb 01 -69ºF (-56ºC), Peter's Sink UT (state record)
Feb 21 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
Feb 12 Defence Minister Robert Coates resigns news reports reveal he visited a nightclub featuring nude dancers and prostitutes while on ministry business in West Germany
Feb 08 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5¼" basketball shot
Feb 03 "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
Feb 21 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
Feb 14 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
Feb 13 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
Feb 16 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion
Feb 08 First-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs Barbados
Feb 24 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
Feb 23 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
Feb 02 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
Feb 10 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)
Feb 01 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
Feb 19 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
Feb 27 US dollar is worth ƒ3.9355 (Netherlands)
Feb 15 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
Feb 28 In Toronto Ontario, publisher Ernst Zundel convicted for distributing hate literature in a book that said the mass extermination of Jews in Germany in World War II never occurred
Feb 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Feb 26 27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win
Feb 13 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
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