48 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.
Space Shuttle Challenger launches on STS-51-F. The shuttle ends up in a lower orbit than planned due to an engine…
Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747, crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, becoming…
Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the…
The 1985–86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota.
British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to…
Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn, Maine, killing all eight…
Major General Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria, is ousted from power in a coup…
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-51-I to deploy three communication satellites and repair a fourth…
The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel.