What Happened in 1985
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Ratt release Invasion of Your Privacy
Invasion of Your Privacy is Ratt's second full length album. Beau Hill, who produced their smash debut album, returned to helm production on this... Read more
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"Prizzi's Honor" Is Released
Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 black comedy film that tells the story of a mob hit man and hit woman who fall in love with each other, even though they... Read more
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"Weird Al" Yankovic releases Dare to Be Stupid
Dare to Be Stupid is the third studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1985. The album was one of many produced by former The McCoys... Read more
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Scorpions release World Wide Live
World Wide Live is a live album by German heavy metal band Scorpions released in 1985, produced by Dieter Dierks. It was originally released as... Read more
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Stephen King publishes Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew (1985) is the second published anthology of short stories by Stephen King. The first collection, Night Shift was published seven... Read more
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Glastonbury Festival 1985
By 1985 Worthy farm was considered too small to accommodate the Festival so the neighbouring Cockmill farm land was purchased to enlarge the... Read more
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Mötley Crüe release Theatre of Pain
Theatre of Pain is the third album by the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on June 21, 1985. Released in the aftermath of singer Vince Neil's... Read more
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Terrorists Bomb Air India Flight 182
Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Toronto-Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating... Read more
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AC/DC releases Fly on the Wall
Fly on the Wall is the tenth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, originally released on 28 June 1985. The band's second and last... Read more
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Aretha Franklin Releases "Who's Zoomin' Who?"
Who's Zoomin' Who? is an album by R&B singer Aretha Franklin, originally released in the summer of 1985. It was the first million-selling Platinum... Read more
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"Back To The Future" Is Released
Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, co-written by Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg.... Read more
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Aretha Franklin Returns to the Top Ten with "Freeway of Love"
July 6, 1985: “Freeway of Love,” by Aretha Franklin, marks the soul diva’s return to the Top Ten for the first time in more than a decade. Read more
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Aeroflot Flight 7425 Crashes in USSR Territory
Aeroflot Flight 7425 on the 10 July 1985 was operated by a three-engined Tupolev Tu-154B-2 which departed Tashkent for a flight to Leningrad. The... Read more
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Live Aid concert event
Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985 (1985-07-13). The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise... Read more
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Val di Stava Dam Collapse
At 12h:22':55" on 19th July 1985 the bank of the upper basin gave way and collapsed onto the lower basin, which, too, collapsed. The muddy mass... Read more
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The Black Cauldron is released
The Black Cauldron (also known as Taran and the Magic Cauldron in some countries) is the twenty-fifth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated... Read more
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"Kiss Of The Spider Woman" Is Released
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Portuguese: O Beijo da Mulher Aranha) is a 1985 Brazilian-American drama film. It was directed by Argentine-born... Read more
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29 Survive Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Crash
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was an airline service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, bound for Los... Read more
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Weird Science is released
Weird Science is a 1985 teen film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. The... Read more
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Crystal Bowersox Is Born
To reach Elliston, where Bowersox was born and raised and her father still lives, it's best to avoid Google Maps. Sometimes you get Graytown, the... Read more
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Japan Airlines Flight 123 Crashes into Mt. Osutaka
Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Osaka International Airport (Itami).... Read more
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Red Hot Chili Peppers release Freaky Styley
Freaky Styley is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1985 on EMI. The album is... Read more
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James Jagger is Born to Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
The pleasure-seeking Jagger Junior would be lost were it not for the largesse of his reputedly tight-fisted father. For how else would he be able... Read more
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The Titanic is Discovered
The idea of finding the wreck of Titanic, and even raising the ship from the ocean floor, had been around since shortly after the ship sank. No... Read more