Historical Events for October 1985
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Months in 1985: January February March April May June July August September November December
Results 1 - 64 of 64
1st - Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
2nd - Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
2nd - Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
3rd - 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
3rd - Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
3rd - Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
3rd - South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
4th - Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
4th - Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
4th - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
5th - Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
6th - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
6th - Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
6th - PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
7th - 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
7th - KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
7th - Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
7th - PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
8th - "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
8th - Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables," premieres in London
8th - Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
9th - "Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs
9th - Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated
9th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10th - Sudan adopts interim constitution
10th - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
11th - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
11th - Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
11th - US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
12th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
12th - Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
13th - "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 perfs
13th - Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
13th - During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin
14th - 19th Country Music Assn Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
14th - On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
15th - Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
15th - Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
15th - Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
16th - Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission
16th - Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
16th - KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships
16th - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle
17th - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
17th - Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
21st - Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand v SL
22nd - Bret Saberhagen gives KC Royals their 1st World Series win
25th - Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
25th - Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
26th - -Nov 6] Hurricane Juan, kills 97 in US
26th - On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series
27th - 15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
27th - 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
27th - Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
27th - Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
27th - Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die
27th - KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
27th - Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
28th - Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan
29th - Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump
29th - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
30th - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
31st - Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas
