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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