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1985 Calendar

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•  February 16, 1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
•  February 20, 1985 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  March 20, 1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
•  May 29, 1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
•  June 6, 1985 – The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
•  July 20, 1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
•  August 22, 1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
•  October 1, 1985 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
•  November 19, 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
•  December 16, 1985 – Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.

•  January 15, 1985 – Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer
•  February 9, 1985 – Rachel Melvin, American actress
•  February 21, 1985 – Jamaal Westerman, Canadian football player
•  February 28, 1985 – Tim Bresnan, British cricketer
•  March 4, 1985 – Scott Michael Foster, American actor
•  June 25, 1985 – Daniel Bard, American baseball player
•  August 1, 1985 – Stuart Holden, American footballer
•  August 22, 1985 – Joshua Samuel Fatu, American wrestler
•  September 10, 1985 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress
•  November 9, 1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer