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1985 (''' MCMLXXXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the Gregorian Calendar .
It was the International Youth Year declared by United Nations
Events
January-February
March
- March 2 - Government of John Cain reelected in Victoria for second consecutive term.
- March 4 - The Food And Drug Administration approves a Blood Test for AIDS , used since then for screening all Blood Donations in the United States.
- March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and '' De Facto '' leader of the Soviet Union .
- March 11 - Mohammed Al Fayed buys the London-based department store company, Harrods .
- March 11 - The Prague Appeal by Jiří Dienstbier , Czech dissident.
- March 14 - Five Lion esses at the Singapore Zoo are put on Birth Control because the lion population had increased from two to 16.
- March 15 - José Sarney takes oath as acting president of Brazil , because the president-elect Tancredo Neves becomes severely ill.
- March 15 - The first .com domain name, '''symbolics.com''', is registered by the Symbolics corporation. However, in this early stage of the rollout of Domain Name s, ''' .edu ''' domains, for educational institutions, still predominate over the commercial '''.com''' ones.
- March 16 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut . He would later be released on December 4 , 1991 .
- March 17 - Serial Killer Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") commits his first two Murder s in Los Angeles , California .
- March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Dog Sled race.
- March 31 - Wrestlemania 1 takes place in New York City at Madison Square Gardens.
April
May
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June
July
August-September
- August 2 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes in Dallas , Texas , killing 137 people.
- August 6 - In Hiroshima , tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the Atomic Bomb ing of the city.
- August 7 - Takao Doi , Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first Astronaut s.
- August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123 , a Boeing 747SR-46 plane en route from Tokyo to Osaka , crashed northwest of Tokyo, killing 520 of the 524 people on board.
- August 22 - 55 people killed at in the Manchester Air Disaster at Manchester International Airport when a British Airtours Boeing 737 burst into flames after the pilot aborts the takeoff.
- August 31 - Richard Ramirez arrested for the "Night Stalker" murders.
- September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS ''Titanic'' .
- September 5 - John Howard replaces Andrew Peacock as Australia n Federal Opposition Leader.
- September 6 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 , a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin , killing 31.
- September 15 - U.S. hostage Benjamin Weir released in Lebanon .
- September 19 - 8.1 Richter Scale Earthquake strikes Mexico City . More than 9,000 people are killed, a further 30,000 injured, and 95,000 lose their homes
October
November
- November 6 - In Colombia , leftist guerrillas of the M-19 movement Seize Control Of The Palace Of Justice in Bogotá . By the next day, 115 people are dead, including 11 Supreme Court justices.
- November 15 - In separate events, Mail Bomb s kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah ; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring Mark Hoffman . The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Hoffman for these murders, as well as Forgery .
- November 16 - When 1,800 staff of Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto , South Africa go on strike for better pay, they are dismissed and troops called in to help run the hospital.
- November 18 - First Calvin And Hobbes comic strip printed in a handful of newspapers; the strip is not carried in the hometown newspaper of its creator, Bill Watterson .
- , U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- November 19 - Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion verdict from Texaco in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history (Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty).
- November 20 - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0 .
- November 21 - United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard is arrested for Spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
- November 23 - Gunmen Hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo . When the plane lands in Malta , Egypt ian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid.
- November 25 - Man wearing a chicken suit walks into the Australian House Of Representatives and sits on the government front bench. He is later removed
- November 26 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his Autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
- November 28 - Gerard Hoarau , exiled political leader from the Seychelles , assassinated in London
December
Environmental and weather change
Unknown date
Births
January-May
- January 1 - Steven Davis , Northern Irish footballer
- February 1 - Dean Shiels , Northern Irish footballer
- February 5 - Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese footballer
- February 9 - Rachel Melvin , American actress
- February 10 - Anette Sagen , Norwegian ski jumper
- February 11 - William Beckett , American singer
- February 18 - Lee Boyd Malvo , American serial killer
- February 19 - Haylie Duff , American actress and singer
- February 27 - Abe Asami , Japanese singer and actress
- February 28 - FeFe Dobson , Canadian singer
- March 2 - Reggie Bush , American football player
- March 2 - Robert Iler , American actor
- March 3 - Sam Morrow , Northern Irish footballer
- March 13 - Emile Hirsch , American actor
- March 15 - Antti Autti , Finnish snowboarder
- March 24 - Haruka Ayase , Japanese actress and model
- March 26 - Keira Knightley , English actress
- May 2 - Sarah Hughes , American figure skater
June-December
- June 9 - Sebastian Telfair , Portland Trailblazers
- June 17 - Marcos Baghdatis , Cypriot tennis player
- June 26 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje , Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
- June 27 - Svetlana Kuznetsova , Russian tennis player
- June 28 - Phillip Bardsley , English footballer
- June 30 - Michael Phelps , American swimmer
- July 2 - Ashley Tisdale , American actress
- July 24 - Teagan Presley , American actress
- July 25 - James Lafferty , American actor and athlete
- September 13 - Jamie Gough , New Zealand (Christchurch) Mayoral Candidate
- September 14 - Aya Ueto , Japanese actress
- October 11 - Michelle Trachtenberg , American actress
- October 22 - Zachary Hanson , American musician
- October 24 - Wayne Rooney , English footballer
- October 25 - Ciara , American singer
- November 8 - Jack Osbourne , English actor
- November 11 - Robin Uthappa , Indian cricketer
- November 18 - Rex Goudie , Canadian singer
- November 30 - Kaley Cuoco , American actress
- December 3 - Amanda Seyfried , American actress
- December 5 - Frankie Muniz , American actor
- December 10 - Raven Symone , American actress
- December 21 - James Stewart Jr. , American motorcycle racer
- December 23 - Harry Judd , English drummer
Deaths
January-June
- January 4 - Sir Brian Horrocks , British general (b. 1895 )
- March 10 - Konstantin Chernenko , Soviet politician (b. 1911 )
- March 12 - Eugene Ormandy , Hungarian conductor (b. 1899 )
- March 28 - Marc Chagall , Russian-born painter (b. 1887 )
- April 8 - J. Fred Coots , American Songwriter (b. 1897 )
- April 11 - Enver Hoxha , Albanian dictator (b. 1908 )
- April 22 - Paul H. Emmett , American chemical engineer (b. 1900 )
- May 4 - Clarence Wiseman , the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
- May 5 - Sir Donald Bailey , British civil engineer (b. 1901 )
- May 8 - Theodore Sturgeon , American writer (b. 1918 )
- May 9 - Edmond O'Brien , American actor (b. 1915 )
- May 10 - Chester Gould , American cartoonist (b. 1900 )
- May 12 - Jean Dubuffet , French artist (b. 1901 )
- May 16 - Margaret Hamilton , American actress (b. 1902 )
- May 17 - Abe Burrows , American songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910 )
- June 11 - Karen Ann Quinlan , American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954 )
- June 15 - Andy Stanfield , American athlete (b. 1927 )
- June 12 - Hua Luogeng , Chinese Mathematician
July-August
- July 2 - David Purley , British race car driver (b. 1945 )
- July 9 - Jimmy Kinnon , Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911 )
- July 16 - Heinrich Böll , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917 )
- July 19 - Janusz A. Zajdel , Polish writer (b. 1938 )
- July 27 - John Scarne , American magician and card expert (b. 1903 )
- August 6 - Forbes Burnham , President Of Guyana (b. 1923 )
- August 12
- --- Manfred Winkelhock , German race car driver (b. 1951 )
- --- Kyu Sakamoto , Japanese singer, well known by his most famous song, " Sukiyaki ", killed in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 (b. 1941 )
- August 25 - Samantha Smith , American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972 )
- August 31 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet , Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1899 )
September-October
- September 6
- --- Isabel Cox-Meighen , First Lady of Canada (b. 1882 )
- --- Little Brother Montgomery , American musician
- September 7 - Rodney Robert Porter , English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1917 )
- September 8 - John Franklin Enders , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1887 )
- September 9 - Paul Flory , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910 )
- September 11 - William Alwyn , English composer (b. 1905 )
- September 19 - Italo Calvino , Italian writer (b. 1923 )
- October 1 - E.B. White , American writer (b. 1899 )
- October 2
- --- Rock Hudson , American actor (b. 1925 )
- --- George Savalas , American actor, brother of Telly Savalas (b. 1926 )
- October 6 - Nelson Riddle , American bandleader (b. 1921 )
- October 10
- --- Yul Brynner , American actor (b. 1915 )
- --- Orson Welles , American film director (b. 1915 )
- October 12 - Johnny Olson , American game show announcer (b. 1910 )
- October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown , American scientist (b. 1905 )
- October 31 - Poul Reichhardt , Danish actor (b. 1913 )
November-December
Nobel prizes
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
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