Historical Events for June 1985
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Months in 1985: January February March April May July August September October November December
Results 1 - 64 of 64
1st - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1st - Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1st - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
2nd - 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
2nd - 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
2nd - Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
2nd - RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
3rd - Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
3rd - Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
4th - STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
4th - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
6th - 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
6th - 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
6th - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
6th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
6th - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
8th - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
8th - Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in same game
9th - 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
9th - 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62)
9th - Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
9th - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
9th - Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France
9th - USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
10th - 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
10th - Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
10th - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
10th - French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
11th - Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
11th - Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
11th - WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
14th - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
14th - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
14th - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
15th - "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV
15th - En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
15th - Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
15th - Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
15th - Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
16th - 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
16th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
16th - T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
16th - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
17th - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
18th - Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
19th - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
21st - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
22nd - "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
22nd - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
23rd - Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
23rd - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
23rd - Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
24th - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
24th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
25th - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)
27th - 1st hotel strike in NY
27th - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
28th - Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
29th - NASA launches Intelsat VA
29th - STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
30th - "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
30th - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
30th - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
30th - LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
