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1985 Timeline
Jan. 8, 1985: American Priest, Lawrence
Jenco is abducted in Beirut
Jan. 20, 1985: Reagan takes the
oath of office for second term. At 73 he is the oldest person ever
to take the oath of office of the U.S. Presidency.
March 10, 1985: Soviet premier
Chernenko dies, Gorbachev to succeed.
March 15, 1985: Labor Secretary,
Raymond J. Donovan resigns his offce. He is facing trial for larceny
and fraud in New York. He is the first sitting cabinet member to
be indicted.
April 16, 1985: A dead engine
fell off the American Airlines Boeing 727 jet while it was over New Mexico.
None of the 90 people on board were hurt. The engine was later recovered.
April 23, 1985: Coke scraps
the 99 year-old formula for the world's best selling softdrink and introduces
New Coke. It is an instant flop.
May 2, 1985: One of the largest
brokerage firms, E.F. Hutton & Co., pleads guilty to fraud. This
sceme involved using millions of dollars without paying interest through
a series of money shuffling sceme.
May 5, 1985: Controversy errupts
when Reagan decides to lay a wreath at a German military ceremony.
Reagan says his decision was based on the view that those Germans buried
there where as much victims of Nazis as those victims in concentration
camps..
May 21, 1985: Patti Frustaci
gives birth to 7 babies (one stillborn) in Orange, CA. 3 of the surviving
infants die later in the year due to poor health or sickness.
May 28, 1985: Reagan proposes
sweeping tax cuts in a national address.
June, 1985: Two Shiite Moslem
gunmen hijack Trans World Airline Flight 847. They force it to fly
from Athens to Beirut, to Algiers, and back to Beirut. 40 passengers
are freed in flight. An American navy diver on board is beaten and
shot. The terrorist demand the release of 766 prisoners held by Israel.
Israel eventually releases some prisoners while the rest of the airline
hostages are freed.
June 4, 1985: The U.S. Supreme
Court voids an Alabama law which called for a "moment of silence" in public
schools.
July, 1985: Cherry Coke is
introduced.
July 10, 1985: Yielding to
irate consumers Coca-Cola revives the original formula. The company
will sell under the name "Classic Coke," but will continue to market new
sweeter drink.
July 13, 1985: Reagan has
a cancerous polyp in his large intestine. Doctors later report that
he has a 50% chance of living out a normal life span.
July 19, 1985: NASA names
teacher for trip on Shuttle. Sharon Christa McAuliffe, 36, of New
Hampshire, is to be the first oridinary citizen to be passenger aboard
spacecraft in January.
August 12, 1985: A Japanese
airliner crashes in the a central mountain range. Only 4 of the 524
survive the crash.
August 26, 1985: Samantha
Smith, age 13, died in a plane crash in Maine. She became famous
for writing to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov about her fear of nuclear war.
She later visited him in Moscow.
September 1, 1985: Titanic
wreck is found off the coast of Newfoundland.
September 19, 1985: A powerful
earthquake strikes central Mexico killing over 5,000. The quake measured
8.1 on the Richter scale.
October 7, 1985: 4 Palestinian
terrorist hijack the cruise ship Achille Lauro with 80 passengers and crew
aboard. They later kill Leon Klinghoffer, an American.
October 9, 1985: After being
refused docking at Cyprus, Lebanon, and Syria, the ship finally docks in
Egypt in return for safe passage out. American fighter later intercept
the plane carrying the terrorists and force it to land at a Nato Base in
Sicily.
November 19, 1985: Reagan and
Gorbachev meet in Summit.
November 21, 1985: They agre
to step up arms control talked and renew cultural contacts.
November 23, 1985: Terrorist
seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens.
November 24, 1985: 59 dead
as Egyptian forces storm plan in Malta.
December 12, 1985: U.S. budget-balancing
bill enacted.
Movie: Out of Africa
Time Magazine's Man of the Year: Deng Xiaoping
- turning China's immense poverty into pleenty
| Top 10 TV Shows 1985-86 | Top Music of 1985 |
| 1. The Cosby Show
(NBC)
2. Family Ties (NBC) 3. Murder, She Wrote (CBS) 4. 60 Minutes (CBS) 5. Cheers (NBC) 6. Dallas (CBS) 7. Dynasty (ABC) 8. The Golden Girls 9. Miami Vice (NBC) 10. Who's the Boss? (ABC) |
Grammy Recording
of the Year: "We Are the World" by USA for Africa
Grammy Album of the Year: No Jacket Required by Phil Collins This album showed that a former Genesis drummer (and Miami Vice denizen) Phil Collins was dressed for success in a solo career. Other Songs: "The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis
and the News
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Lunch line - 4th Grade, 1985