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1985 Calendar

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•  January 29, 1985 – Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
•  February 20, 1985 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  March 20, 1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
•  May 13, 1985 – Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
•  June 15, 1985 – Rembrandt’s painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
•  July 10, 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
•  August 12, 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
•  August 23, 1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
•  October 29, 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
•  December 27, 1985 – Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome, Italy and Vienna, Austria airports.

•  January 31, 1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer
•  February 1, 1985 – Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
•  February 7, 1985 – Tina Majorino, American actress
•  May 27, 1985 – Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
•  July 10, 1985 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
•  September 14, 1985 – Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
•  September 26, 1985 – Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
•  October 12, 1985 – Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player
•  December 21, 1985 – James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
•  December 26, 1985 – Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol