Year (''' MCMLXXXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian Calendar ).
The year 1985 was declared '' International Youth Year '' by the United Nations .
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- May 4 - The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg , Sweden .
- May 5 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II .
- May 11 - The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the 5 Mafia families in New York City .
- May 11 - Fire Engulfs A Wooden Stand in the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford , England during a football match, killing 56.
- May 13 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group MOVE 's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents in the resulting fire.
- May 15 - An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at UC Berkeley .
- May 23 - Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell Stealth Bomber secrets to the Soviet Union .
- May 24 - RCMP officers capture the Lady Sharell , seizing $238,000,000.00 in drugs, the largest drug bust in North America's history.
- May 25 - Bangladesh is hit by a Tropical Cyclone and Storm Surge , which kills approximately 10,000 people.
- final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels , Belgium .
- May 31 - Forty-one Tornado es hit in Ohio , Pennsylvania , New York and Ontario , leaving 76 dead.
- June 13 - In Auburn, Washington , police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing .
- June 14 - TWA Flight 847 , carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome , is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem , is killed.
- June 23 - Air India Flight 182 , a Boeing 747 , blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean , south of Ireland , killing all 329 aboard.
- June 25 - Irish police foil an Irish Republican Army -sponsored 'mainland bombing campaign' which targeted luxury vacationing resorts, arresting 13 suspects.
- June 26 - Walt Disney World Resort Monorail Gold catches fire on the EPCOT beam around 9:00pm due to friction from a flat tire.
- June 27 - Route 66 is officially decommissioned.
- 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 19 - An 8.1 Richter Scale Earthquake strikes Mexico City . More than 9,000 people are killed, 30,000 injured, and 95,000 left homeless.
- September 28 - The Shooting of Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce by the Metropolitan Police sparks race riots in Brixton , an area of South London , England .
- September 30 - Howard Stern is fired from WNBC-AM
- November 13 - Nevado Del Ruiz Volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by Lahar s in the town of Armero , Colombia .
- November 15 - In separate events, Mail Bomb s kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah ; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring career Counterfeiter Mark Hoffman . The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Hoffman for the two murders.
- , U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- November 20 - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0 .
- November 26 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his Autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
- November 29 - Gerard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles , is assassinated in London .
- December 1 - The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are revealed to the public.
- December 5 - Edmonton , Canada and Harbin , China are declared as Sister Cities .
- December 12 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 , a Douglas DC-8 , crashes after takeoff in Gander , Newfoundland , killing 256, 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai .
- December 16 - In New York City , Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family.
- December 18 - Work begins on Comrade Lenin 's first album ''Revolution'' at the Bolshoi Theatre .
- December 24 - Right Wing extremist David Lewis Rice murders Civil Rights Attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and 2 children in Seattle . Rice suspected the family of being Jewish and Communist and claimed his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.
- terrorists open fire in the Airport s of Rome and Vienna , leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
- December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda .
- December 31 - The last issue of '' The Columbus Citizen-Journal '' is circulated.
The following are references to year 1985 in fiction:
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