Historical Events in 1985

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• Jan 1 International Youth Year begins
• Jan 1 The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone
• Jan 1 The Internet's Domain Name System is created.

• Jan 1 US's 1st mandatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)
• Jan 1 VH-1 made its broadcasting debut

• Jan 2 Leg-spin bowler Bob "Dutchy" Holland takes 4/90 for match figures of 10/144 as Australia beats the West Indies by innings in 5th Test in Sydney; Windies take series, 3-1
• Jan 2 Nevada Las Vegas basketball gives coach Jerry Tarkanian his 600th career victory with a 142-140 win over Utah State in triple overtime; total of 282 points breaks NCAA men's record of 275 set in 1976
• Jan 3 Future Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin scores 110 on debut in drawn 3rd Test against England in Kolkata
• Jan 3 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews

• Jan 5 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
• Jan 5 Operation Moses, covert airlifting of about 8000 Ethiopian Jews from war-torn Sudan to Israel via Belgium ends
• Jan 7 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
• Jan 7 KHQ-AM in Spokane, Washington, changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)

• Jan 8 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
• Jan 9 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out

• Jan 11 CDC MMWR publishes guidelines for screening U.S. blood supply for AIDS antibodies with ELISA test that would be available later that year
• Jan 13 99-year-old Otto Bucher from Switzerland becomes the oldest man to record a hole-in-one at Spanish GC La Manga's 130-yard 12th hole
• Jan 13 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
• Jan 13 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17.1 million
• Jan 13 Express train derails in Ethiopia, killing at least 428

• Jan 14 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
• Jan 14 British pound sinks to record low $US1.11

• Jan 15 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
• Jan 15 CBS' premiere of TV made teen drug abuse drama, "Not My Kid", based on the previous year's book by Beth Polson
• Jan 15 Mike Gatting (207) and Graeme Fowler (201) become first pair of England batsmen to complete double centuries in the same innings during 9-wicket 4th cricket Test win against India at Madras
• Jan 15 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years, but dies before taking office
• Jan 16 "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
• Jan 17 Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
• Jan 18 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise

• Jan 19 4 die in a car & train crash in Buda Ill
• Jan 20 Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27°F (-33°C) in Chicago)

• Jan 21 -19°F (-28°C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
• Jan 21 -34°F (-37°C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
• Jan 21 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
• Jan 21 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals

• Jan 22 -30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
• Jan 22 Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
• Jan 23 Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
• Jan 24 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
• Jan 25 "Black & Blue" premieres in Paris
• Jan 26 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
• Jan 27 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
• Jan 27 Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)

• Jan 28 Houston's Bill Fitch becomes the 6th coach in NBA history to post 600 wins as the Rockets beat the New Jersey Nets, 97-93

• Feb 1 -61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
• Feb 1 -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
• Feb 1 Patient innings from Dilip Vengsarkar (137) and Mohammad Azharuddin (122) set India up for 5th cricket Test draw vs England in Kanpur; Azharuddin, 3 centuries in 1st 3 Tests
• Feb 4 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
• Feb 4 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ if nuclear weapons aboard USS Buchanan
• Feb 7 "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York City
• Feb 7 Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5"
• Feb 7 NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
• Feb 8 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
• Feb 8 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)

• Feb 10 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
• Feb 10 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-E mission
• Feb 10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Feb 11 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
• Feb 11 King Hussein of Jordan & PLO leader Arafat sign accord

• Feb 13 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
• Feb 13 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders

• Feb 14 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
• Feb 15 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
• Feb 15 Teen film "The Breakfast Club" is released, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy

• Feb 16 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
• Feb 16 Lebanese political and military organization Hezbollah founded

• Feb 16 NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
• Feb 17 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
• Feb 17 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England

• Feb 17 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)

• Feb 17 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion

• Feb 19 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashes approaching Bilbao, Spain
• Feb 19 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
• Feb 19 British soap opera "Eastenders" premieres on the BBC
• Feb 19 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
• Feb 19 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
• Feb 19 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spends 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
• Feb 20 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
• Feb 21 Evert van Benthem wins his 13th Elfstedentocht, a long distance 11 city skating race
• Feb 21 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)

• Feb 23 Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight throws a chair onto the court during a game

• Feb 24 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
• Feb 24 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds

• Feb 27 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
• Feb 27 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
• Feb 27 US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)

• Mar 1 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases NBA's Milwaukee Bucks for $18 million
• Mar 1 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
• Mar 2 FDA in the US approves an ELISA screening test for AIDS antibody for all blood banks

• Mar 3 National Union of Mine Workers in Britain ends a 51 week strike
• Mar 4 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida); mission cancelled
• Mar 4 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by US Environment Protection Agency
• Mar 4 WWII veterans return to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
• Mar 5 Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar

• Mar 6 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale

• Mar 7 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
• Mar 8 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
• Mar 10 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
• Mar 10 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
• Mar 10 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
• Mar 10 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"

• Mar 13 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
• Mar 14 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards

• Mar 15 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
• Mar 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 16 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

• Mar 18 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC for $3.5 billion, first transfer of ownership of a TV network

• Mar 19 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
• Mar 19 US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX "Peacekeeper" intercontinental ballistic missile
• Mar 20 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race

• Mar 21 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed

• Mar 22 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-10

• Mar 23 Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
• Mar 23 Space Shuttle Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-D mission
• Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 24 5th Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards: "Bolero" wins
• Mar 24 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
• Mar 24 Third straight WTA Tour Championship for tennis legend Martina Navratilova; beats Helena Suková 6–3, 7–5, 6–4 at Madison Square Garden, NYC

• Mar 25 Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General

• Mar 28 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley

• Mar 28 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
• Mar 29 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
• Mar 29 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
• Mar 31 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
• Mar 31 El Salvador's President José Napoleón Duarte' Christian Democratic Party wins election
• Apr 2 Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky sets an NHL record with his 34th career hat trick as the Oilers beat the Kings 6-4 in Los Angeles

• Apr 2 The NCAA Rules Committee adopts a 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season in an effort to eliminate stalling
• Apr 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 3 French government adopts equal electoral system
• Apr 3 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
• Apr 3 Vic Elliot pockets 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
• Apr 4 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
• Apr 6 Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
• Apr 6 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
• Apr 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 7 1st live telecast of Easter Parade in New York
• Apr 7 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (−5) to win her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia
• Apr 7 New Jersey General Hershel Walker rushes for USFL record 233 yards
• Apr 8 Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
• Apr 8 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster

• Apr 10 At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
• Apr 10 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-B mission
• Apr 12 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
• Apr 13 "TASS" denounces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
• Apr 13 Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)

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