Historical Events In 1985
Feb 09 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
Feb 10 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
Feb 04 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons
Feb 27 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
Feb 27 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
Feb 08 The Dukes of Hazzard ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television\
Feb 11 Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
Feb 19 Canned &bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
Feb 08 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
Feb 19 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
Feb 21 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skating race
Apr 23 P Jensen discovers asteroid #3318 Blixen
Apr 25 Richard Haydn British actor, dies at 80
Apr 23 New Coke debuts later to vanish
Apr 29 Tony Tubbs wins the WBA heavyweight boxing championship
Apr 23 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3581 Alvarez
Apr 15 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3527 McCord & #3663
Apr 13 "TASS" denounced US.boycott of the Moscow Olympics
Apr 04 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
Apr 13 Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
Apr 24 Supreme Court of Canada ruling allows Sunday shopping in most provinces.
Apr 15 Geoff Smith wins his 2nd straight Boston Marathon
Apr 09 Near Coast of Central Chile a 7.5 quake occurred one person died from a heart attack, several people injured
Apr 03 French government adopts equal electoral system
Apr 24 Israel begins the third stage of its troop removal from Lebanon
Apr 12 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
Apr 20 Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean-and-jerk lift
Apr 06 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
Apr 25 Murray Matheson actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
Apr 29 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
Apr 24 In Luzon, Philippine Islands a 6.1 earthquake resulted in Six people killed, 11 injured and damage and landslides in Benguet Province
Apr 18 In Yunnan Province, China a 5.8 quake resulted in Twenty-three people killed, 300 injured and damage in the Luquan-Xundian area
Apr 25 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
Apr 19 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
Apr 09 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
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