28 events found for 1985
Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days
Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando…
An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all…
The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes…
The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.