Historical Events In 1985

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

Sep 21 Michael Spinks becomes first light heavyweight to defeat the reigning heavyweight champion, he defeats Larry Holmes

Sep 22 Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill

Sep 25 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India

Sep 27 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits the Atlantic coast

Sep 08 "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers

Sep 01 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland

Sep 19 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)

Sep 02 A joint US-French expedition locates the wreckage of the ill-fated HMS Titanic.

Jun 24 The motion picture " Cocoon", directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. "Cocoon", which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" starring Sylvester Stallone, in firstweekend receipts

Jun 24 The wife of exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn became a U.S. citizen.

Jun 06 Brazilian authorities exhume the body later identified as Dr. Josef Mengele, the one responsible for many of the Nazi Holocaust atrocities during World War II.

Jun 25 Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)

Jun 30 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut

Jun 14 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff

Jun 06 Chris Evert wins a grand slam title for 13th straight year (French)

Jun 29 Vancouver businessman Jimmy Pattison pays $2.229,000 for a yellow Rolls-Royce formerly owned by the Beatles

Jun 06 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed

Jun 01 Richard Greene actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67

Jun 24 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F

Jun 09 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped &held hostage in Lebanon

Jun 27 First hotel strike in NY

Jun 21 American, Brazilian &West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele

Jun 04 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law

Jun 09 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus

Jun 06 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

Jun 29 NASA launches Intelsat VA

Jun 17 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched

Jun 10 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife

Jun 24 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth

Jun 29 STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad

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