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May 20th - 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis
May 20th - Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
May 20th - FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
May 20th - Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out
May 20th - Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
May 20th - Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
May 20th - US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
May 22nd - Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
May 22nd - Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid
May 22nd - US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
May 24th - "View to a Kill" premieres in US
May 24th - -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
May 25th - Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
May 25th - Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
May 26th - Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
May 26th - Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
May 26th - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 27th - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
May 27th - Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
May 28th - David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
May 28th - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
May 29th - Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot
May 29th - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
May 30th - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 1
May 31st - 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
May 31st - Guatemala adopts constitution
May 31st - New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
May 31st - Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000
May 31st - 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
May 31st - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
Jun 1st - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
Jun 1st - Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
Jun 1st - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
Jun 2nd - 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
Jun 2nd - 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
Jun 2nd - Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
Jun 2nd - RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
Jun 3rd - Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
Jun 3rd - Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
Jun 4th - STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
Jun 4th - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
Jun 6th - 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
Jun 6th - 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
Jun 6th - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
Jun 6th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
Jun 6th - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Jun 8th - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
Jun 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
Jun 9th - 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
Jun 9th - 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62)
Jun 9th - Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
Jun 9th - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
Jun 9th - Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France
Jun 9th - USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
Jun 10th - 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
Jun 10th - Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
Jun 10th - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
Jun 10th - French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
Jun 11th - Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
Jun 11th - Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
Jun 11th - WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
Jun 14th - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
Jun 14th - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
Jun 14th - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
Jun 15th - "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV
Jun 15th - En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
Jun 15th - Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Jun 15th - Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
Jun 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.
Jun 16th - 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
Jun 16th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
Jun 16th - T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
Jun 16th - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
Jun 17th - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
Jun 18th - Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
Jun 19th - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
Jun 21st - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
Jun 22nd - "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
Jun 22nd - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
Jun 23rd - Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
Jun 23rd - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
Jun 23rd - Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
Jun 24th - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
Jun 24th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
Jun 25th - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)
Jun 27th - 1st hotel strike in NY
Jun 27th - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
Jun 27th - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
Jun 28th - Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
Jun 29th - NASA launches Intelsat VA
Jun 29th - STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
Jun 30th - "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
Jun 30th - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
Jun 30th - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
Jun 30th - LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
Jul 2nd - Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
Jul 2nd - European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
Jul 3rd - CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
Jul 4th - Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
Jul 5th - Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
Jul 5th - Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
Jul 7th - 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
Jul 7th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
Jul 8th - 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
Jul 8th - Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
Jul 9th - South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
Jul 10th - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
Jul 10th - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in NZ
Jul 10th - Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
Jul 11th - Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
Jul 11th - Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
Jul 11th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 12th - "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 perfs
Jul 12th - Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon
Jul 12th - STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
Jul 13th - "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
Jul 13th - NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms
Jul 14th - 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
Jul 14th - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
Jul 14th - Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
Jul 15th - Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
Jul 16th - 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
Jul 16th - All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
Jul 16th - Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
Jul 16th - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
Jul 18th - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
Jul 19th - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
Jul 19th - Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
Jul 19th - The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
Jul 20th - Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
Jul 20th - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
Jul 21st - "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs
Jul 21st - 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George
Jul 21st - Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
Jul 21st - Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France
Jul 21st - Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
Jul 24th - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
Jul 25th - Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
Jul 25th - Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
Jul 25th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 25th - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 25th - Uganda suspends constitution following coup
Jul 28th - 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
Jul 28th - Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
Jul 28th - L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
Jul 29th - 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
Jul 30th - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
Jul 30th - Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
Aug 1st - 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
Aug 1st - Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time