Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Crash Kills 137 – August 2, 1985
Date: August 2, 1985
Date: August 2, 1985
Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba. Date: May 20, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 20 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985Valparaíso Region Earthquake Kills 177, Leaves Million Homeless – March 3, 1985Iberia…
Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador. Date: June 19, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 19 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985George H. W. Bush…
A Boeing 727 operating as Iberia Flight 610 crashes Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148; it is the deadliest accident to occur in Iberia's history and the deadliest to occur in Basque County. Date: February 19, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 19 📅 Events on this day in 1985…
An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster. Date: July 10, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 10 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today)…
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. Date: March 21, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 21 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. Date: March 3, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 3 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985Space Shuttle Discovery Launches First Arab…