Palestine Liberation Front Hijacks MS Achille Lauro, October 7, 1985

Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. Date: July 7, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 7 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985TWA Flight 847 Hostages Freed in Beirut June 30, 1985Terry Anderson…

Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991. Date: March 16, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 16 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985Israel Attacks PLO Tunisia Headquarters in Operation Wooden…

Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months. Date: April 23, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 23 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More…

Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. Date: October 6, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 6 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985Calvin and Hobbes First Comic Published in Ten Newspapers…

Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state. Date: March 11, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 11 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day…

University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights. Date: April 20, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 20 📅 Events…