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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 19, 1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
•  February 20, 1985 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  March 3, 1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
•  March 17, 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
•  May 25, 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
•  June 19, 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
•  July 13, 1985 – Vice President George H.W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
•  July 20, 1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
•  September 19, 1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

•  January 28, 1985 – J. Cole, American rapper
•  February 7, 1985 – Tina Majorino, American actress
•  February 14, 1985 – Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
•  February 18, 1985 – Chelsea Hobbs, American actress
•  March 4, 1985 – Mathieu Montcourt, Professional French tennis player (d. 2009)
•  July 2, 1985 – Jurgen Roelandts, Belgian cyclist
•  August 11, 1985 – Asher Roth, American rapper
•  October 1, 1985 – Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
•  October 25, 1985 – Ciara, American singer
•  December 23, 1985 – Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor