Date: February 19, 1985
Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses. Date: May 29, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 29 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985Ethiopia Passenger Train Ravine Disaster Kills 428,…
Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people. Date: January 21, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 21 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985Calvin and Hobbes First Comic Published in Ten Newspapers -…
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…
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…
Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist. Date: June 17, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 17 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day…
William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital. Date: February 19, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 19 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1985First British Mobile Phone Call by Michael Harrison January 1,…