Notable Historical Events - 1985
1985 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
International Youth Year begins |
Jan 1 |
US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY) |
Jan 1 |
VH-1 made its broadcasting debut |
Jan 1 |
The Internet's Domain Name System is created. |
Jan 1 |
The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone. |
Jan 2 |
90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter |
Jan 2 |
Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts |
Jan 2 |
Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III |
Jan 2 |
Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score |
Jan 2 |
Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions |
Jan 3 |
Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings |
Jan 3 |
Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews |
Jan 5 |
Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot |
Jan 5 |
Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission |
Jan 7 |
"King & I" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances |
Jan 7 |
Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet |
Jan 7 |
KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ) |
Jan 7 |
Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
Jan 8 |
Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet |
Jan 9 |
Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out |
Jan 10 |
Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua |
Jan 13 |
23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1) |
Jan 13 |
99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course |
Jan 13 |
Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders |
Jan 13 |
Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,100,000 |
Jan 13 |
Express train derails in Ethiopia, killing at least 428 |
Jan 14 |
16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees |
Jan 14 |
M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert) |
Jan 14 |
British pound sinks to record low $US1.11 |
Jan 15 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell |
Jan 15 |
Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president |
Jan 15 |
Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India |
Jan 15 |
Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years |
Jan 16 |
"Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds |
Jan 17 |
Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England) |
Jan 18 |
US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise |
Jan 19 |
"Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9 |
Jan 19 |
4 die in a car & train crash in Buda Ill |
Jan 20 |
Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27°F (-33°C) in Chicago) |
Jan 20 |
Super Bowl XIX: SF 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford Super Bowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB |
Jan 21 |
-19°F (-28°C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record) |
Jan 21 |
-34°F (-37°C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record) |
Jan 21 |
Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java |
Jan 21 |
Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals |
Jan 22 |
-30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record) |
Jan 22 |
Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop |
Jan 22 |
Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA |
Jan 23 |
Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised |
Jan 24 |
15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched |
Jan 25 |
"Black & Blue," premieres in Paris |
Jan 25 |
Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105) |
Jan 26 |
42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins |
Jan 26 |
Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season |
Jan 27 |
"Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 perf |
Jan 27 |
15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth |
Jan 27 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
Jan 27 |
Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25) |
Jan 27 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14 |
Jan 28 |
Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and other pop stars) |
Jan 28 |
12th American Music Award: Cyndi Lauper & Lionel Richie win |
Jan 29 |
Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39 |
Jan 31 |
"Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Jan 31 |
South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence |
Feb 1 |
-61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record) |
Feb 1 |
-69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record) |
Feb 1 |
Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 v Eng) |
Feb 1 |
Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark |
Feb 1 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin |
Feb 2 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
Feb 3 |
"Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances |
Feb 3 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
Feb 4 |
20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture |
Feb 4 |
Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons |
Feb 7 |
"New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC |
Feb 7 |
Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5" |
Feb 7 |
NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals |
Feb 8 |
1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados |
Feb 8 |
Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot |
Feb 8 |
Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75) |
Feb 8 |
Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea |
Feb 9 |
Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks |
Feb 10 |
Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82) |
Feb 10 |
35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana |
Feb 10 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission |
Feb 10 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
Feb 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 11 |
King Hussein of Jordan & PLO leader Arafat sign accord |
Feb 11 |
Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins |
Feb 11 |
Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins |
Feb 12 |
37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary |
Feb 12 |
West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup |
Feb 13 |
Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier |
Feb 13 |
Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders |
Feb 14 |
Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut |
Feb 15 |
STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad |
Feb 15 |
World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23 |
Feb 16 |
Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Phila at Detroit |
Feb 16 |
Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ |
Feb 16 |
NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds |
Feb 16 |
The founding of Hezbollah. |
Feb 17 |
1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents |
Feb 17 |
1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England |
Feb 17 |
3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon) |
Feb 17 |
Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater |
Feb 17 |
Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita |
Feb 19 |
150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain |
Feb 19 |
ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy |
Feb 19 |
Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola |
Feb 19 |
Mickey Mouse welcomed in China |
Feb 19 |
William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky |
Feb 20 |
After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket |
Feb 21 |
Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race |
Feb 21 |
Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit) |
Feb 21 |
Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator |
Feb 23 |
Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game |
Feb 23 |
US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general |
Feb 23 |
Goaltender Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens |
Feb 24 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson |
Feb 24 |
Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal |
Feb 24 |
Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds |
Feb 24 |
Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I" |
Feb 26 |
27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins |
Feb 27 |
Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief |
Feb 27 |
Mauritania's new constitutional charter published |
Feb 27 |
US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands) |
Mar 1 |
Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center |
Mar 1 |
Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks |
Mar 1 |
Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter |
Mar 2 |
US approves screening test for AIDS |
Mar 3 |
"Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres |
Mar 3 |
"My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances |
Mar 3 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
Mar 3 |
Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million |
Mar 3 |
National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike |
Mar 3 |
Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million |
Mar 4 |
STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled |
Mar 4 |
Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA |
Mar 4 |
War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" |
Mar 5 |
NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons |
Mar 5 |
Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar |
Mar 6 |
Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Mar 6 |
Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight |
Mar 6 |
Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I" |
Mar 6 |
Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale |
Mar 7 |
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released |
Mar 8 |
Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS) |
Mar 9 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
Mar 10 |
Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
Mar 10 |
Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games |
Mar 10 |
French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) |
Mar 10 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova & O Vasiliev (URS) |
Mar 10 |
India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket" |
Mar 10 |
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS) |
Mar 11 |
Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader |
Mar 12 |
Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points |
Mar 12 |
11th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Joan Collins & Linda Evans win (TV) |
Mar 13 |
Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) |
Mar 13 |
Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards |
Mar 14 |
Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards |
Mar 15 |
Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 15 |
The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). |
Mar 16 |
Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut |
Mar 16 |
Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs |
Mar 17 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 17 |
Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' |
Mar 18 |
Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC |
Mar 18 |
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle |
Mar 19 |
"Spin Magazine" begins publishing |
Mar 19 |
NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket |
Mar 19 |
Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile |
Mar 20 |
Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race |
Mar 21 |
Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame |
Mar 21 |
Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed |
Mar 22 |
NASA launches Intelsat VA |
Mar 23 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission |
Mar 23 |
Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas) |
Mar 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 24 |
5th Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards: Bolero wins |
Mar 24 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
Mar 24 |
Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah) |
Mar 24 |
5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins |
Mar 25 |
57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus", F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win |
Mar 25 |
Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General |
Mar 27 |
Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame |
Mar 28 |
International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley |
Mar 28 |
Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premieres in NYC |
Mar 28 |
STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad |
Mar 29 |
Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece |
Mar 29 |
Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist |
Mar 31 |
15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000 |
Mar 31 |
4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Ga 70-65 |
Mar 31 |
El Salvador's Pres Duartes' Christian-Democrats win election |
Mar 31 |
Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden NY, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf |
Apr 1 |
47th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75 |
Apr 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 3 |
French government adopts equal electoral system |
Apr 3 |
Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games |
Apr 3 |
Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London |
Apr 4 |
Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal |
Apr 6 |
Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final |
Apr 6 |
Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab |
Apr 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 7 |
14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller |
Apr 7 |
1st live telecast of Easter Parade |
Apr 7 |
NJ General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards |
Apr 8 |
"Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs |
Apr 8 |
Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix |
Apr 8 |
India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster |
Apr 9 |
White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game |
Apr 10 |
At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game |
Apr 10 |
Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead |
Apr 10 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission |
Apr 11 |
Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead |
Apr 12 |
16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn |
Apr 13 |
"TASS" denounced US boycott of Moscow Olympics |
Apr 13 |
Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas |
Apr 13 |
Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead |
Apr 13 |
Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30) |
Apr 13 |
Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania |
Apr 14 |
"Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
Apr 14 |
49th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282 |
Apr 14 |
Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09) |
Apr 14 |
Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru |
Apr 14 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
Apr 14 |
Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot |
Apr 14 |
Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2 |
Apr 14 |
Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart |
Apr 15 |
14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06 |
Apr 15 |
89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05 |
Apr 15 |
Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing |
Apr 16 |
"Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances |
Apr 16 |
Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isle win series 3-2 |
Apr 18 |
Flyers 3-Isles 0-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead |
Apr 19 |
16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth |
Apr 19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 19 |
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. |
Apr 20 |
Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12) |
Apr 20 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams |
Apr 20 |
Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift |
Apr 20 |
ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas. |
Apr 21 |
Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels |
Apr 21 |
Flyers 5-Isles 2-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead |
Apr 21 |
Ingrid Kristiansen wins London Marathon in a record 2:21:06 |
Apr 21 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Apr 23 |
Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational |
Apr 23 |
New Coke debuts; Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula |
Apr 23 |
Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead |
Apr 24 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" |
Apr 25 |
"Big River" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances |
Apr 25 |
Flyers 2-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead |
Apr 25 |
For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points in a Cup game (3 goals, 4 assists) |
Apr 25 |
Roger Miller's musical "Big River," premieres in NYC |
Apr 25 |
West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust |
Apr 28 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
Apr 28 |
Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 4th time |
Apr 28 |
Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season |
Apr 29 |
17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched |
Apr 29 |
Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 HRs in a game in both leagues |
Apr 29 |
Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 30 |
Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April |
Apr 30 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Apr 30 |
Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa |
May 1 |
"Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels |
May 1 |
US President Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua |
May 1 |
William Hoffman's "As Is" premieres in NYC |
May 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 3 |
Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill" |
May 4 |
111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2 |
May 5 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational |
May 6 |
17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB |
May 8 |
20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win |
May 8 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 10 |
Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
May 11 |
40 die and 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground, England |
May 11 |
Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India |
May 11 |
Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1 |
May 11 |
Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands |
May 11 |
Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cin Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno |
May 12 |
Amy Eilberg is ordained in NY as 1st woman Conservative rabbi |
May 12 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
May 13 |
Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases |
May 13 |
Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA |
May 13 |
Philadelphia police attack a house held by group "Move", 11 killed |
May 15 |
Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
May 16 |
Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year |
May 16 |
Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium |
May 17 |
Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska |
May 18 |
"One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3 |
May 18 |
111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4 |
May 18 |
1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa) |
May 19 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
May 20 |
1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis |
May 20 |
Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time |
May 20 |
FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR |
May 20 |
Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out |
May 20 |
Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers |
May 20 |
Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 20 |
US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti |
May 22 |
Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader |
May 22 |
Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid |
May 22 |
US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR |
May 24 |
"View to a Kill" premieres in US |
May 24 |
-25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die |
May 25 |
Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire) |
May 25 |
Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed |
May 26 |
Indianapolis 500: Danny Sullivan wins by 24 seconds following a spin |
May 26 |
Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die |
May 26 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 27 |
Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
May 27 |
Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan |
May 28 |
David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon |
May 28 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G |
May 29 |
Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot |
May 29 |
Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months. |
May 30 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 1 |
May 31 |
41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88 |
May 31 |
Guatemala adopts constitution |
May 31 |
New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000 |
May 31 |
Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000 |
May 31 |
1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead. |
May 31 |
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States. |
Jun 1 |
"Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12 |
Jun 1 |
Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket |
Jun 1 |
Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP |
Jun 2 |
31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
Jun 2 |
39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win |
Jun 2 |
Andreas Papandreou's PASOK-party wins election in Greece |
Jun 2 |
RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco |
Jun 3 |
Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1 |
Jun 3 |
Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques |
Jun 4 |
STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad |
Jun 4 |
Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law |
Jun 6 |
55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75) |
Jun 6 |
58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu |
Jun 6 |
Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed |
Jun 6 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba |
Jun 6 |
Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
Jun 8 |
117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27 |
Jun 9 |
39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
Jun 9 |
55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62) |
Jun 9 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
Jun 9 |
American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon |
Jun 9 |
Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France |
Jun 9 |
USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus |
Jun 10 |
19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell |
Jun 10 |
Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife |
Jun 10 |
Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula |
Jun 11 |
Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus |
Jun 11 |
Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7) |
Jun 11 |
WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR |
Jun 13 |
"Prizzi's Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released |
Jun 14 |
"Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV |
Jun 14 |
Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles |
Jun 14 |
Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 |
Jun 15 |
"Pryor's Place" children's show last airs on CBS-TV |
Jun 15 |
En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus |
Jun 15 |
Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 15 |
Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus |
Jun 15 |
Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife. |
Jun 16 |
85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
Jun 16 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
Jun 16 |
T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open |
Jun 16 |
Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis |
Jun 17 |
18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched |
Jun 18 |
Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs |
Jun 19 |
Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place |
Jun 21 |
American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele |
Jun 22 |
"Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances |
Jun 22 |
"Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12 |
Jun 23 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jun 23 |
Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die |
Jun 23 |
Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million |
Jun 24 |
18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth |
Jun 24 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F |
Jun 25 |
Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK, explodes (21 die) |
Jun 27 |
First hotel strike in NY |
Jun 27 |
Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified |
Jun 28 |
Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx |
Jun 29 |
NASA launches Intelsat VA |
Jun 29 |
STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad |
Jun 30 |
"The King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances |
Jun 30 |
39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut |
Jun 30 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 30 |
LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June |
Jul 2 |
Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR |
Jul 2 |
European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby) |
Jul 3 |
CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover |
Jul 4 |
Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins |
Jul 5 |
Premier Robert Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections |
Jul 5 |
Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min |
Jul 7 |
92nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chrissie Evert (46 63 62) |
Jul 7 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship |
Jul 8 |
99th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64) |
Jul 8 |
Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red |
Jul 9 |
South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong |
Jul 10 |
Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke |
Jul 10 |
French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, New Zealand |
Jul 10 |
Playboy (and also Penthouse) publish nude pictures of Madonna |
Jul 11 |
Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep) |
Jul 11 |
Refurbished space shuttle Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden |
Jul 11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 12 |
"Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 perfs |
Jul 12 |
Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon |
Jul 12 |
STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown |
Jul 13 |
"Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief |
Jul 13 |
NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms |
Jul 14 |
40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker |
Jul 14 |
Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb |
Jul 14 |
Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24 |
Jul 15 |
Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe |
Jul 16 |
56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn |
Jul 16 |
All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres) |
Jul 16 |
Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent |
Jul 16 |
F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph) |
Jul 18 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
Jul 19 |
Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle |
Jul 19 |
Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die |
Jul 19 |
The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy. |
Jul 20 |
Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha |
Jul 20 |
The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. |
Jul 21 |
"Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs |
Jul 21 |
114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George |
Jul 21 |
Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America |
Jul 21 |
Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France |
Jul 21 |
Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Jul 24 |
Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai |
Jul 25 |
Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS |
Jul 25 |
Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32) |
Jul 25 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 25 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 25 |
Uganda suspends constitution following coup |
Jul 28 |
13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley |
Jul 28 |
Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru |
Jul 28 |
L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame |
Jul 29 |
19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched |
Jul 30 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission |
Jul 30 |
Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Aug 1 |
15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record) |
Aug 1 |
Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time |
Aug 1 |
Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74 |
Aug 2 |
5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo |
Aug 2 |
Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 137 die |
Aug 2 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-209 |
Aug 3 |
"Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ |
Aug 3 |
Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed |
Aug 4 |
"Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances |
Aug 4 |
California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit |
Aug 4 |
Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
Aug 4 |
Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10 |
Aug 4 |
Rod Carew is 16th to get 3,000 hits |
Aug 4 |
White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees |
Aug 5 |
Baseball players go on strike for 2 days |
Aug 5 |
Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced |
Aug 5 |
Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor |
Aug 6 |
19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB |
Aug 6 |
Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike |
Aug 6 |
Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) |
Aug 6 |
STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad |
Aug 7 |
A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets with SA President P W Botha, following calls by the church for urgent discussions on the causes of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country |
Aug 7 |
Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album" |
Aug 7 |
Baseball players end a 2 day strike |
Aug 7 |
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. |
Aug 8 |
Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993 |
Aug 8 |
Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet |
Aug 10 |
Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle) |
Aug 10 |
Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million |
Aug 10 |
Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles |
Aug 11 |
"Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs |
Aug 11 |
67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver |
Aug 11 |
Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz |
Aug 11 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
Aug 11 |
Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12) |
Aug 12 |
7th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Aug 12 |
Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
Aug 12 |
Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll) |
Aug 13 |
South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts |
Aug 14 |
Political violence by the youth begins after the funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of South African Students |
Aug 15 |
PW Botha gives the "Rubicon" Speech in Durban, South Africa, dissapointing many by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system |
Aug 15 |
First Iraqi air raid on Iran's main oil export terminal, Kharg Island |
Aug 17 |
1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant |
Aug 17 |
Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India |
Aug 17 |
Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando |
Aug 18 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf |
Aug 18 |
Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn |
Aug 18 |
Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby) |
Aug 19 |
Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei |
Aug 19 |
Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha's invitation to attend a meeting to discuss the role and actions of the police and security forces in South Africa |
Aug 20 |
1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden) |
Aug 20 |
Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US |
Aug 20 |
Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers |
Aug 20 |
Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win |
Aug 20 |
Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle |
Aug 21 |
Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71 |
Aug 21 |
NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47) |
Aug 22 |
30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11 |
Aug 22 |
Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed |
Aug 23 |
Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin |
Aug 23 |
South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested |
Aug 23 |
West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR |
Aug 23 |
Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games |
Aug 24 |
STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather |
Aug 25 |
Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d) |
Aug 25 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Aug 25 |
STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem |
Aug 26 |
Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels |
Aug 26 |
French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior |
Aug 27 |
20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched |
Aug 27 |
Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round) |
Aug 29 |
Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission |
Aug 29 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Aug 29 |
NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time |
Aug 31 |
"Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill |
Aug 31 |
Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M |
Aug 31 |
Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S California captured in East LA |
Sep 1 |
Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion |
Sep 1 |
US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland |
Sep 2 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 2 |
Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000 |
Sep 3 |
20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth |
Sep 3 |
England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval |
Sep 3 |
NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game |
Sep 4 |
Igor Paklin of USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12 |
Sep 4 |
NY Mets Gary Carter's 2 HRs ties record of 5 HRs in 2 games |
Sep 6 |
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31. |
Sep 6 |
Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine) |
Sep 7 |
99th US Women's Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76) |
Sep 7 |
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83) |
Sep 8 |
"USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers |
Sep 8 |
105th US Men's Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (7-6 6-3 6-4) |
Sep 8 |
7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose, Calif |
Sep 8 |
Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool |
Sep 8 |
Shuttle Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
Sep 8 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
Sep 8 |
Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits |
Sep 9 |
President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa |
Sep 9 |
Race riot in Birmingham, England |
Sep 11 |
Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km |
Sep 11 |
Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India |
Sep 11 |
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Sep 12 |
Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds |
Sep 13 |
2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen |
Sep 13 |
John Williams introduces new Today Show theme |
Sep 14 |
Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986 |
Sep 14 |
"The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC |
Sep 15 |
26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16½-11½ at The Belfry, England |
Sep 15 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 15 |
Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government |
Sep 15 |
Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings |
Sep 15 |
Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert |
Sep 15 |
Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro |
Sep 17 |
Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
Sep 18 |
"Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances |
Sep 18 |
BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston |
Sep 19 |
12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1) |
Sep 20 |
Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players |
Sep 20 |
Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest |
Sep 21 |
Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 to become Heavyweight Boxing Champion |
Sep 22 |
37th Emmy Awards: Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show & Tyne Daly win |
Sep 22 |
Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson |
Sep 22 |
Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed |
Sep 22 |
France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior |
Sep 22 |
Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois |
Sep 22 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
Sep 22 |
St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man |
Sep 22 |
The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City. |
Sep 24 |
Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees |
Sep 24 |
Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m) |
Sep 24 |
Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th), and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice |
Sep 25 |
Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India |
Sep 25 |
Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus |
Sep 25 |
Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season |
Sep 26 |
Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya |
Sep 27 |
8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket |
Sep 27 |
Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast |
Sep 28 |
"Don't Lose My Number" by Phil Collins peaks at #4 |
Sep 28 |
"Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25 |
Sep 28 |
"Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3 |
Sep 28 |
"Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87 |
Sep 28 |
NASA launches Intelsat VA |
Sep 28 |
Race riot in London area of Brixton |
Sep 29 |
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Amazing Stories" by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"MacGyver" starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies |
Sep 29 |
Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions! |
Sep 29 |
Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys) |
Sep 30 |
Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY) |
Oct 1 |
Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed |
Oct 2 |
Russian party leader Gorbachev visits Paris (his first trip abroad) |
Oct 2 |
Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues |
Oct 3 |
21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched |
Oct 3 |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution |
Oct 3 |
Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine |
Oct 3 |
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution |
Oct 4 |
Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia |
Oct 4 |
Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley |
Oct 4 |
Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA. |
Oct 5 |
Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game |
Oct 6 |
Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia |
Oct 6 |
Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0 |
Oct 6 |
PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. |
Oct 7 |
21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB |
Oct 7 |
KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission |
Oct 7 |
Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters |
Oct 7 |
PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro |
Oct 8 |
"Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam |
Oct 8 |
Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables" premieres in London |
Oct 8 |
Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident |
Oct 9 |
"Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs |
Oct 9 |
Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated |
Oct 9 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 10 |
Sudan adopts interim constitution |
Oct 10 |
US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody |
Oct 11 |
Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
Oct 11 |
President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands |
Oct 11 |
US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists |
Oct 12 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission |
Oct 12 |
Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize |
Oct 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 13 |
"Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 perfs |
Oct 13 |
Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election |
Oct 13 |
During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin |
Oct 14 |
19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins |
Oct 14 |
On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7 |
Oct 15 |
Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani |
Oct 15 |
Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit |
Oct 15 |
Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds |
Oct 16 |
Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission |
Oct 16 |
Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip |
Oct 16 |
KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships |
Oct 16 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle |
Oct 17 |
French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature |
Oct 17 |
Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager |
Oct 21 |
Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand v SL |
Oct 22 |
Bret Saberhagen gives KC Royals their 1st win leading to their World Series title |
Oct 25 |
Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract |
Oct 25 |
Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit |
Oct 26 |
-Nov 6] Hurricane Juan, kills 97 in US |
Oct 26 |
On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series |
Oct 26 |
Doug Harvey's #2 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens |
Oct 27 |
15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34 |
Oct 27 |
16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34 |
Oct 27 |
Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions |
Oct 27 |
Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time |
Oct 27 |
Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die |
Oct 27 |
KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series |
Oct 27 |
Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's |
Oct 28 |
Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan |
Oct 29 |
Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump |
Oct 29 |
Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia. |
Oct 30 |
22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched |
Oct 31 |
Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas |
Nov 1 |
Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles |
Nov 1 |
Nostalgia Television begins on cable |
Nov 2 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge |
Nov 3 |
Argentine presdent AlfonsÃns Radical Burgerunie wins elections |
Nov 3 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament |
Nov 5 |
"News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Nov 6 |
22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB |
Nov 6 |
Exploratory well in Ranger, Texas, blows out, spilling 150,000 bbl (24,000 m3) of crude oil |
Nov 6 |
M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia |
Nov 6 |
Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards, Calif |
Nov 7 |
Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice |
Nov 8 |
Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission |
Nov 9 |
"News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances |
Nov 9 |
Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion aged 22 |
Nov 9 |
Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba |
Nov 9 |
Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed |
Nov 10 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 11 |
1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost" |
Nov 11 |
Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB |
Nov 11 |
Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing |