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Events on the year of 1985 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1985 International Youth Year begins
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01 Jan 1985 VH-1 made its broadcasting debut
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01 Jan 1985 The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
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02 Jan 1985 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
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02 Jan 1985 Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts
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02 Jan 1985 Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic Pope Shenuda III
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02 Jan 1985 Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
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02 Jan 1985 Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
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03 Jan 1985 Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
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03 Jan 1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
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05 Jan 1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
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05 Jan 1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
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07 Jan 1985 "King & I" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
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07 Jan 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
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07 Jan 1985 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
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09 Jan 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
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10 Jan 1985 Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
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10 Jan 1985 Sir Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, which became a notorious commercial failure and later a cult collector's item.
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10 Jan 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua
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12 Jan 1985 Miami Dolphins win AFC football championship
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13 Jan 1985 23rd Tennis Federation Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
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13 Jan 1985 A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
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13 Jan 1985 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17,1000,000
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13 Jan 1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
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13 Jan 1985 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
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13 Jan 1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
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14 Jan 1985 British pound (
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14 Jan 1985 Martina Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert)
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14 Jan 1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
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15 Jan 1985 Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India
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15 Jan 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
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15 Jan 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
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15 Jan 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years
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16 Jan 1985 "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
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17 Jan 1985 Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
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18 Jan 1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
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19 Jan 1985 "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
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19 Jan 1985 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda, Illinois
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20 Jan 1985 Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27
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20 Jan 1985 Super Bowl XIX San Francisco 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford; Super Bowl MVP Joe Montana, San Francisco, Quarterback
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21 Jan 1985 -19
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21 Jan 1985 -34
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21 Jan 1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
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21 Jan 1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
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22 Jan 1985 -30
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22 Jan 1985 Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
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22 Jan 1985 Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides
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22 Jan 1985 Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
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23 Jan 1985 Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
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24 Jan 1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
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25 Jan 1985 "Black & Blue, " premieres in Paris
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25 Jan 1985 "Black & Blue" premieres in Paris
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25 Jan 1985 Test debut of Wasim Akram, vs New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
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25 Jan 1985 "We are the World" is recorded
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26 Jan 1985 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
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26 Jan 1985 42th Golden Globes Amadeus wins
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27 Jan 1985 "Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York after 60 performances
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27 Jan 1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
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27 Jan 1985 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
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27 Jan 1985 Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
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27 Jan 1985 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 22-14
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28 Jan 1985 Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
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28 Jan 1985 12th American Music Award
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29 Jan 1985 Pop stars in LA record "We Are The World"
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29 Jan 1985 Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th point of season in game 39
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31 Jan 1985 South African President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
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31 Jan 1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater New York City NY for 5 performances
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01 Feb 1985 Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
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01 Feb 1985 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
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02 Feb 1985 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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03 Feb 1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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04 Feb 1985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
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04 Feb 1985 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons
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05 Feb 1985 Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
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07 Feb 1985 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City
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07 Feb 1985 New York Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
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08 Feb 1985 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
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08 Feb 1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
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10 Feb 1985 -61
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10 Feb 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
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10 Feb 1985 35th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 140-129 at Indiana
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10 Feb 1985 Andrea Sch
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10 Feb 1985 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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10 Feb 1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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11 Feb 1985 Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
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11 Feb 1985 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
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11 Feb 1985 Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins
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12 Feb 1985 37th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary
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13 Feb 1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
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13 Feb 1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
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14 Feb 1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
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15 Feb 1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
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15 Feb 1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
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16 Feb 1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ
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16 Feb 1985 Hezbollah is founded.
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16 Feb 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
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16 Feb 1985 New Jersey Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
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17 Feb 1985 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
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17 Feb 1985 1st day / night game at the MCG, Australia vs. England
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17 Feb 1985 1st class postage rises from 20
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17 Feb 1985 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
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17 Feb 1985 Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
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17 Feb 1985 Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
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19 Feb 1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
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19 Feb 1985 EastEnders, BBC's flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time.
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19 Feb 1985 Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
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19 Feb 1985 William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
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19 Feb 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
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19 Feb 1985 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
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19 Feb 1985 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
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19 Feb 1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
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20 Feb 1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
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21 Feb 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
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21 Feb 1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skating race
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21 Feb 1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
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23 Feb 1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
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23 Feb 1985 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
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24 Feb 1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
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24 Feb 1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yards
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24 Feb 1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
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24 Feb 1985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
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24 Feb 1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
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26 Feb 1985 27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win
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27 Feb 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
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27 Feb 1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
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27 Feb 1985 US dollar is worth
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28 Feb 1985 The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
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01 Mar 1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
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01 Mar 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
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01 Mar 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
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02 Mar 1985 US approves screening test for AIDS
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03 Mar 1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres
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03 Mar 1985 "My One & Only" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 767 performances
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03 Mar 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
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03 Mar 1985 Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
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03 Mar 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
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03 Mar 1985 Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
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03 Mar 1985 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
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03 Mar 1985 Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
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04 Mar 1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
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04 Mar 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
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04 Mar 1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
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04 Mar 1985 The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
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05 Mar 1985 New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
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06 Mar 1985 Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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06 Mar 1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
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06 Mar 1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
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07 Mar 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
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07 Mar 1985 The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
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08 Mar 1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
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08 Mar 1985 A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
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09 Mar 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
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09 Mar 1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
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10 Mar 1985 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and O Vasiliev (URS)
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10 Mar 1985 Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
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10 Mar 1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
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10 Mar 1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
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10 Mar 1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
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10 Mar 1985 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)
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10 Mar 1985 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev (USSR)
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10 Mar 1985 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
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10 Mar 1985 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (USSR)
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11 Mar 1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
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12 Mar 1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
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13 Mar 1985 The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
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13 Mar 1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
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13 Mar 1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
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14 Mar 1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
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14 Mar 1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
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15 Mar 1985 Brazilian military government ends.
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15 Mar 1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
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15 Mar 1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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15 Mar 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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16 Mar 1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
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16 Mar 1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
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16 Mar 1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years
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17 Mar 1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
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17 Mar 1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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17 Mar 1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
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18 Mar 1985 First episode of Neighbours broadcast.
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18 Mar 1985 Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
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18 Mar 1985 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
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19 Mar 1985 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
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19 Mar 1985 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
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19 Mar 1985 New South Wales wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
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19 Mar 1985 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
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20 Mar 1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
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20 Mar 1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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20 Mar 1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
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21 Mar 1985 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame
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21 Mar 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
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22 Mar 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
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23 Mar 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING
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23 Mar 1985 Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
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23 Mar 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
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23 Mar 1985 Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio TX)
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23 Mar 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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24 Mar 1985 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
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24 Mar 1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
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24 Mar 1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
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24 Mar 1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)
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25 Mar 1985 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus, " F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win
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25 Mar 1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
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27 Mar 1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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28 Mar 1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet
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28 Mar 1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premieres in New York NY
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28 Mar 1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
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29 Mar 1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
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29 Mar 1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
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31 Mar 1985 The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
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31 Mar 1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
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31 Mar 1985 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65
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31 Mar 1985 El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
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31 Mar 1985 Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf
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03 Apr 1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
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03 Apr 1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
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04 Apr 1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
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06 Apr 1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
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06 Apr 1985 Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
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06 Apr 1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
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07 Apr 1985 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
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07 Apr 1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
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07 Apr 1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
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07 Apr 1985 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
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08 Apr 1985 "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 performances
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08 Apr 1985 Amdahl releases UTS / V, 1st mainframe Unix
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08 Apr 1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
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09 Apr 1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
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10 Apr 1985 Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Caps hold 1-0 lead
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10 Apr 1985 At 80, Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
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10 Apr 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
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10 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 3 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Capitals hold 1-0 lead
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11 Apr 1985 Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Caps hold 2-0 lead
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11 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 2-New York Islanders 1 (OT)-Patrick Division Semifinals- Capitals hold 2-0 lead
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12 Apr 1985 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
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13 Apr 1985 "TASS" denounced US boycott of Moscow Olympics
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13 Apr 1985 Caps 1-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Caps hold 2-1 lead
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13 Apr 1985 Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
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13 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 1-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals- Capitals hold 2-1 lead
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13 Apr 1985 Katrin D
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13 Apr 1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
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14 Apr 1985 "Take Me Along!" opens / closes at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
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14 Apr 1985 Caps 4-Isles 6 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Series tied at 2-2
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14 Apr 1985 Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
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14 Apr 1985 Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st playoff penalty shot
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14 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 6-Patrick Division Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
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14 Apr 1985 "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
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14 Apr 1985 49th Golf Masters Championship Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282
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14 Apr 1985 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
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14 Apr 1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
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14 Apr 1985 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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15 Apr 1985 Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
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15 Apr 1985 Geoff Smith wins his 2nd straight Boston Marathon
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15 Apr 1985 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
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15 Apr 1985 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
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15 Apr 1985 South Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites
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16 Apr 1985 "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
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16 Apr 1985 Caps 1-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isle win series 3-2
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16 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 1-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals-Islanders win series 3-2
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18 Apr 1985 Flyers 3-Islanders 0-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
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19 Apr 1985 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
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19 Apr 1985 U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
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19 Apr 1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
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20 Apr 1985 The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
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20 Apr 1985 Karyn Marshall of New York NY lifted 303 lbs in a clean-and-jerk lift
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20 Apr 1985 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
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20 Apr 1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
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21 Apr 1985 Bomb attacks in NATO / AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
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21 Apr 1985 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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21 Apr 1985 Flyers 5-Islanders 2-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
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21 Apr 1985 Ingrid Kristiansen wins the London Marathon in a record 2:21:6
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23 Apr 1985 Flyers 5-Isles 3 - Patrick Division Finals - Flyers hold 3-0 lead
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23 Apr 1985 Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
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23 Apr 1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
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23 Apr 1985 New Coke debuts
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23 Apr 1985 Philadelphia Flyers 5-New York Islanders 3-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
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23 Apr 1985 Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
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24 Apr 1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
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25 Apr 1985 Flyers 2-Isles 6 - Patrick Division Finals - Flyers hold 3-1 lead
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25 Apr 1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
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25 Apr 1985 Philadelphia Flyers 2-New York Islanders 6-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
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25 Apr 1985 Roger Miller's musical "Big River", premieres at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances
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25 Apr 1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
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28 Apr 1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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28 Apr 1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless innings to start season
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28 Apr 1985 Philadelphia Flyers New York Islanders 1-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers win series 4-1
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28 Apr 1985 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time
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29 Apr 1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
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29 Apr 1985 Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 homeruns in a game in both leagues
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29 Apr 1985 Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing championship
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30 Apr 1985 Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April
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30 Apr 1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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30 Apr 1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
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01 May 1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
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01 May 1985 US President Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
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03 May 1985 Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
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04 May 1985 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
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05 May 1985 Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen: Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg, Germany, and the site of the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, where he makes a speech.
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06 May 1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B) - Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
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08 May 1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Judds win
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10 May 1985 Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
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11 May 1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in the Netherlands
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11 May 1985 Soccer stadium in Bradford England catches fire; 53 die
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11 May 1985 Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England.
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11 May 1985 40 die & 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground
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11 May 1985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
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11 May 1985 Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cincinnati Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, the others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno
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11 May 1985 Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1
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12 May 1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi
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12 May 1985 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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13 May 1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move, " kills 11
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13 May 1985 Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
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13 May 1985 Carlton Fisk becomes the 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
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13 May 1985 Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
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15 May 1985 Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
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16 May 1985 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
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16 May 1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
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17 May 1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
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18 May 1985 "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3
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18 May 1985 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
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18 May 1985 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4
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19 May 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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20 May 1985 1150 Lebanese / Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis
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20 May 1985 Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
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20 May 1985 Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
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20 May 1985 Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1300 for 1st time
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20 May 1985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
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20 May 1985 Indians-Brewers game at Cleveland Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out
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20 May 1985 Israel exchanges 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
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20 May 1985 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 May 1985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
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22 May 1985 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader
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22 May 1985 Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid
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22 May 1985 US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
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24 May 1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US
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24 May 1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US
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24 May 1985 Cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
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24 May 1985 Ferry flight, Enterprise (OV-101) from Vandenberg Air Force Base to Edwards Air Force Base CA
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25 May 1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
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25 May 1985 Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
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25 May 1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
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26 May 1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
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26 May 1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
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26 May 1985 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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27 May 1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
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27 May 1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
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28 May 1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
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28 May 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 51-G
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29 May 1985 Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot
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29 May 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
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29 May 1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
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29 May 1985 Heysel Stadium Disaster - 39 die and 500 injured in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer; English clubs banned from playing in European competition for five years
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30 May 1985 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 1
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31 May 1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
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31 May 1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
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31 May 1985 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada kill 88 & injure more than 1,000
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31 May 1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
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31 May 1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
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01 Jun 1985 Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
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02 Jun 1985 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
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02 Jun 1985 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win
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02 Jun 1985 Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
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02 Jun 1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
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03 Jun 1985 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
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03 Jun 1985 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
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04 Jun 1985 STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
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04 Jun 1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
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06 Jun 1985 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
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06 Jun 1985 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
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06 Jun 1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
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06 Jun 1985 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
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06 Jun 1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
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06 Jun 1985 The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
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08 Jun 1985 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
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08 Jun 1985 Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in same game
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09 Jun 1985 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
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09 Jun 1985 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62)
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09 Jun 1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon
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09 Jun 1985 Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France
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09 Jun 1985 Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon. He will not be released until 1991.
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10 Jun 1985 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
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10 Jun 1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near New Zealand
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10 Jun 1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
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10 Jun 1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
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11 Jun 1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
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11 Jun 1985 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
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11 Jun 1985 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
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14 Jun 1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
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14 Jun 1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles
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14 Jun 1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
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14 Jun 1985 TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
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14 Jun 1985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
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15 Jun 1985 Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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15 Jun 1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
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15 Jun 1985 Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
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15 Jun 1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
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16 Jun 1985 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills Country Club - Michigan
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16 Jun 1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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16 Jun 1985 T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
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16 Jun 1985 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58'11
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17 Jun 1985 STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
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17 Jun 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
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18 Jun 1985 Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
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19 Jun 1985 Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
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19 Jun 1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
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21 Jun 1985 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
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21 Jun 1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm
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22 Jun 1985 "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
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23 Jun 1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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23 Jun 1985 A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
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23 Jun 1985 Air India jet crashes near Ireland, 329 killed
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23 Jun 1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
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23 Jun 1985 Laffit Pncay Jr becomes the 2nd jockey to win $100 million
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24 Jun 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
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24 Jun 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
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25 Jun 1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)
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27 Jun 1985 1st hotel strike in New York
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27 Jun 1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
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27 Jun 1985 U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System.
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28 Jun 1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Texas
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29 Jun 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
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29 Jun 1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad
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30 Jun 1985 "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
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30 Jun 1985 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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30 Jun 1985 Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
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30 Jun 1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
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30 Jun 1985 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
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02 Jul 1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed President of the USSR
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05 Jul 1985 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
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05 Jul 1985 Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
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07 Jul 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
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07 Jul 1985 Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
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08 Jul 1985 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
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08 Jul 1985 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
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10 Jul 1985 Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
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10 Jul 1985 The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
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10 Jul 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
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10 Jul 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
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11 Jul 1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
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11 Jul 1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
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12 Jul 1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon
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12 Jul 1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
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13 Jul 1985 "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
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13 Jul 1985 New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms
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13 Jul 1985 The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London, England, United Kingdom and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as other venues such as Sydney, Australia and Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
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13 Jul 1985 Vice President George Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
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13 Jul 1985 Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Phila, Moscow & Sydney
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14 Jul 1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
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14 Jul 1985 Kathy Baker beats Judy Clark to win golf's US Women's Open
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14 Jul 1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
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15 Jul 1985 Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
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16 Jul 1985 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minnesota
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16 Jul 1985 All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
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16 Jul 1985 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
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16 Jul 1985 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
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16 Jul 1985 NL beats AL 6-1 in th All Star Game (HHH Metrodome, Minn)
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17 Jul 1985 Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
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19 Jul 1985 Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
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19 Jul 1985 The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
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19 Jul 1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle
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20 Jul 1985 The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
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20 Jul 1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
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21 Jul 1985 "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 performances
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21 Jul 1985 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George
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21 Jul 1985 Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
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21 Jul 1985 Bernard Hinault wins his 5th and last Tour de France
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21 Jul 1985 Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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24 Jul 1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
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25 Jul 1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
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25 Jul 1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
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28 Jul 1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
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28 Jul 1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
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29 Jul 1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
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30 Jul 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
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01 Aug 1985 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
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01 Aug 1985 Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
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01 Aug 1985 Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
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02 Aug 1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster, Colorado
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02 Aug 1985 Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
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02 Aug 1985 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
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03 Aug 1985 "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, New Jersey
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03 Aug 1985 Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
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04 Aug 1985 "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
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04 Aug 1985 California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
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04 Aug 1985 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
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04 Aug 1985 Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
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04 Aug 1985 Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
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04 Aug 1985 White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
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05 Aug 1985 Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
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05 Aug 1985 Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
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06 Aug 1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
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06 Aug 1985 Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike
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06 Aug 1985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
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07 Aug 1985 Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
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07 Aug 1985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike
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07 Aug 1985 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
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07 Aug 1985 The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.
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10 Aug 1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47
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10 Aug 1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
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11 Aug 1985 "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 performances
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11 Aug 1985 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
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11 Aug 1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona
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11 Aug 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
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11 Aug 1985 Hubert Green wins PGA championship
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11 Aug 1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes the 21st to hit 400 HR
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11 Aug 1985 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
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12 Aug 1985 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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12 Aug 1985 Baltimore Orioles W Gross and L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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12 Aug 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
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12 Aug 1985 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
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15 Aug 1985 Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
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15 Aug 1985 Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
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16 Aug 1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
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16 Aug 1985 Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn
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17 Aug 1985 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
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17 Aug 1985 Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
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17 Aug 1985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR
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17 Aug 1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
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18 Aug 1985 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
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19 Aug 1985 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
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20 Aug 1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian / Egyptian gas workers
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20 Aug 1985 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
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20 Aug 1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Goodin)
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20 Aug 1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US
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20 Aug 1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
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21 Aug 1985 New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
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21 Aug 1985 Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
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22 Aug 1985 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
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22 Aug 1985 Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
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23 Aug 1985 South African attorney / UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
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23 Aug 1985 West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
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23 Aug 1985 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
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23 Aug 1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
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24 Aug 1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
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25 Aug 1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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25 Aug 1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
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25 Aug 1985 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
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26 Aug 1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs. California Angels
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26 Aug 1985 French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
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27 Aug 1985 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
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27 Aug 1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
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29 Aug 1985 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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29 Aug 1985 New York Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
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29 Aug 1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission
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31 Aug 1985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois
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31 Aug 1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
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31 Aug 1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S California captured in East Los Angeles
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01 Sep 1985 Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
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01 Sep 1985 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
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01 Sep 1985 A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
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02 Sep 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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03 Sep 1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I) - Discovery 6-returns to Earth
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03 Sep 1985 New York Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game
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04 Sep 1985 Igor Paklin of the USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
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04 Sep 1985 The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
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06 Sep 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
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07 Sep 1985 99th US Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76)
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07 Sep 1985 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83)
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08 Sep 1985 105th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64)
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08 Sep 1985 7 die in a car and train crash in San Jose, California
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08 Sep 1985 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hour women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool
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08 Sep 1985 Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
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08 Sep 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
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08 Sep 1985 Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits
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09 Sep 1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
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09 Sep 1985 Race riot in Birmingham England
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11 Sep 1985 Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
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11 Sep 1985 International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
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11 Sep 1985 Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.
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11 Sep 1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
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12 Sep 1985 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
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13 Sep 1985 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
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13 Sep 1985 Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
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13 Sep 1985 John Williams introduces the new Today Show theme
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14 Sep 1985 Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
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14 Sep 1985 Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
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15 Sep 1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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15 Sep 1985 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
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15 Sep 1985 Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
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15 Sep 1985 Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
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15 Sep 1985 European team beats US team for golf's Ryders Cup (1st since 1957)
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17 Sep 1985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
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18 Sep 1985 "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
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19 Sep 1985 A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
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19 Sep 1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
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19 Sep 1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)
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20 Sep 1985 Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.
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20 Sep 1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
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20 Sep 1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
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21 Sep 1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 Sep 1985 Michael Spinks becomes 1st light heavyweight to defeat the reigning heavyweight champion, he defeats Larry Holmes
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22 Sep 1985 37th Emmy Awards: Cagney and Lacey, Cosby Show and Tyne Daly win
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22 Sep 1985 Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed
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22 Sep 1985 France Premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior
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22 Sep 1985 Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois
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22 Sep 1985 Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
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22 Sep 1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ
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22 Sep 1985 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
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24 Sep 1985 Expos Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice
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24 Sep 1985 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
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24 Sep 1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
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24 Sep 1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
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25 Sep 1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
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25 Sep 1985 Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season
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25 Sep 1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
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26 Sep 1985 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
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27 Sep 1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits the Atlantic coast
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28 Sep 1985 "Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25
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28 Sep 1985 "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
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28 Sep 1985 "Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87
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28 Sep 1985 Race riot in London area of Brixton
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28 Sep 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
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29 Sep 1985 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents, " returns to NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1985 "Amazing Stories, " by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1985 "MacGyver, " starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
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29 Sep 1985 Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs. Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
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29 Sep 1985 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
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29 Sep 1985 First of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
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30 Sep 1985 Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
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01 Oct 1985 Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
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01 Oct 1985 The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis.
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02 Oct 1985 Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
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02 Oct 1985 Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
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03 Oct 1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J) - Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
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03 Oct 1985 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
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03 Oct 1985 Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
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03 Oct 1985 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
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03 Oct 1985 The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
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04 Oct 1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
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04 Oct 1985 Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
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04 Oct 1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
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06 Oct 1985 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games and also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
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06 Oct 1985 PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
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07 Oct 1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J) - Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
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07 Oct 1985 Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
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07 Oct 1985 PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
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07 Oct 1985 The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.
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07 Oct 1985 The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
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08 Oct 1985 "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
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08 Oct 1985 Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
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09 Oct 1985 "Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 performances
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10 Oct 1985 Sudan adopts interim constitution
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10 Oct 1985 United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
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10 Oct 1985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
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11 Oct 1985 President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
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11 Oct 1985 US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
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11 Oct 1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
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12 Oct 1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
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12 Oct 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
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13 Oct 1985 "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 performances
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13 Oct 1985 Belgium Premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
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14 Oct 1985 19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
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14 Oct 1985 On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
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15 Oct 1985 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
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15 Oct 1985 Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
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15 Oct 1985 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
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16 Oct 1985 Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships
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16 Oct 1985 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
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16 Oct 1985 Challenger vehicle moves to the launch pad for STS 61A mission
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16 Oct 1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
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17 Oct 1985 French Author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
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17 Oct 1985 Lou Piniella named New York Yankee manager
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22 Oct 1985 Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win
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25 Oct 1985 Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
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25 Oct 1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
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26 Oct 1985 The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
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26 Oct 1985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the 82nd World Series
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27 Oct 1985 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
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27 Oct 1985 Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
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27 Oct 1985 Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
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27 Oct 1985 Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states and east coast, 49 die
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27 Oct 1985 Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
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27 Oct 1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
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28 Oct 1985 Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan
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29 Oct 1985 Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
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30 Oct 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
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30 Oct 1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
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01 Nov 1985 Netherlands decides definative sites for cruise missiles
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01 Nov 1985 Nostalgia Television begins on cable
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03 Nov 1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
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05 Nov 1985 "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
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06 Nov 1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
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06 Nov 1985 Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
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06 Nov 1985 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards, California
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08 Nov 1985 Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
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09 Nov 1985 "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
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09 Nov 1985 Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
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09 Nov 1985 Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 vs. Australia at the Gabba
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09 Nov 1985 Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
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10 Nov 1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
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11 Nov 1985 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"
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11 Nov 1985 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
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11 Nov 1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
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12 Nov 1985 Secretary in Ann Arbor Michigan wounded by package bomb
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12 Nov 1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to the launch pad
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13 Nov 1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
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13 Nov 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
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14 Nov 1985 Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
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14 Nov 1985 Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World
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14 Nov 1985 Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed
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17 Nov 1985 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM, New York
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17 Nov 1985 New York Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
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18 Nov 1985 Dwight Gooden (NL) and Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
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18 Nov 1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
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18 Nov 1985 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
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18 Nov 1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
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18 Nov 1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, & turned over to the Smithsonian Institution
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18 Nov 1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
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19 Nov 1985 President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
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20 Nov 1985 New York Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
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20 Nov 1985 Yankee Don Mattingly named AL MVP
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22 Nov 1985 Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
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22 Nov 1985 PNP / MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
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22 Nov 1985 Columbia moves to the Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
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23 Nov 1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
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23 Nov 1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
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24 Nov 1985 73rd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 37-24
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24 Nov 1985 Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed
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25 Nov 1985 White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie of Year
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26 Nov 1985 Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
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26 Nov 1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
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27 Nov 1985 Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
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27 Nov 1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
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28 Nov 1985 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
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01 Dec 1985 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
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02 Dec 1985 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 performances
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03 Dec 1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B) - Atlantis 2 lands at Edwards AFB
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04 Dec 1985 "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
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04 Dec 1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
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04 Dec 1985 President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser
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05 Dec 1985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
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07 Dec 1985 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
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08 Dec 1985 60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
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08 Dec 1985 Laurie Rinker / Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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09 Dec 1985 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63)
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09 Dec 1985 Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
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09 Dec 1985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
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10 Dec 1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
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10 Dec 1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
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11 Dec 1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
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11 Dec 1985 Edmonton Oilers (36) & Chicago Black Hawks (26) score NHL record 62 points
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11 Dec 1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
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11 Dec 1985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (17) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals
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11 Dec 1985 Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
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12 Dec 1985 248 US soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
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12 Dec 1985 DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
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12 Dec 1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
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12 Dec 1985 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air DC-8 charter crash (Gander, Newfoundland)
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12 Dec 1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-207
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13 Dec 1985 Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh and Bruce Reid (vs. India)
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13 Dec 1985 David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 vs India at Adelaide
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14 Dec 1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
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15 Dec 1985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
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16 Dec 1985 Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family
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16 Dec 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
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18 Dec 1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
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18 Dec 1985 "Jerry's Girls" opens at St James Theater NYC for 139 performances
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19 Dec 1985 "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
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19 Dec 1985 STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13 seconds because of SRB auxiliary power problem
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19 Dec 1985 Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
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20 Dec 1985 Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
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20 Dec 1985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
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20 Dec 1985 Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
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20 Dec 1985 Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
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21 Dec 1985 Alice Miller / Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
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21 Dec 1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, Washington
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21 Dec 1985 Heart's "Heart" album goes #1
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22 Dec 1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
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22 Dec 1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
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22 Dec 1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
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26 Dec 1985 Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, vs India at the MCG
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27 Dec 1985 Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
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27 Dec 1985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports; President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi
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28 Dec 1985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
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28 Dec 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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30 Dec 1985 Pakistan restores constitution
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30 Dec 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
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30 Dec 1985 President Zia of Pakistan ends martial law
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31 Dec 1985 King Hussein of Jordan and President Assad hold talks
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