12 events found for 1985
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (aircraft involved pictured) crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing…
A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M at Manchester Airport, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke…
Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the…
Super Mario Bros., one of the most influential and best-selling video games in history, was first released in Japan…
Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video…
An earthquake registering Mw 8.0 struck Mexico City, killing at least 9,000 people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.