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- This article is about the year. For the song by Bowling for Soup, see 1985 (song). For the album by Rufio, see MCMLXXXV.
1985 (
MCMLXXXV) was a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar.
It was declared
International Youth Year by the
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 lionesses 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 names, .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 murders in Los Angeles, California.
- March 24 - Norwich City FC win the English League Cup at Wembley Stadium, beating Sunderland 1-0 in the final.
April
May
June
- June 1 - Battle of the Beanfield, end of Stonehenge Free Festivals.
- June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil.
- June 9 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he is not released until 1991).
- June 10 - Claus von Bulow is acquitted on charges of trying to kill his wife.
- June 13 - In Auburn, Washington, police defuses a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing
- June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
- 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 targetted luxury vacationing resorts. Thirteen arrested, and held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
July
August
September
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 bombs 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.
- November 19 - Cold War: In Geneva, 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, Egyptian 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 7 - Clara Bryant, American actress
- February 7 - Tina Majorino, American actress
- 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 11 - Paul Bissonnette, Canadian hockey player
- 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
- April 16 - Jim Singer, Canadian actor, singer, voice actor, producer & director
- April 18 - Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
- April 24 - Kaori Nazuka, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
- May 2 - Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
June-December
- June 9 - Sebastian Telfair, Portland Trailblazers
- June 12 - Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian singer/guitarist (Lillix)
- June 17 - Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
- June 26 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
- June 27 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
- June 27- Nico Rosberg, German Formula One driver
- June 28 - Phillip Bardsley, English footballer
- June 30 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- July 2 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress
- July 12 - Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
- 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
- September 17 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian Hockey Player
- 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 (b. 1910)
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
- 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
- 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
- October 6 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
- October 10
- 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
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