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Months in Year 1985: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Results 451 - 600 of 769

Aug 1st - Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
Aug 2nd - 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
Aug 2nd - Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
Aug 2nd - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
Aug 3rd - "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
Aug 3rd - Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
Aug 4th - "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
Aug 4th - Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
Aug 4th - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
Aug 4th - Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
Aug 4th - Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
Aug 4th - White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
Aug 5th - Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
Aug 5th - Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
Aug 5th - Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
Aug 6th - 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
Aug 6th - Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
Aug 6th - Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
Aug 6th - STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
Aug 7th - Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
Aug 7th - Baseball players end a 2 day strike
Aug 7th - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
Aug 8th - Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
Aug 8th - Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
Aug 10th - Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
Aug 10th - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
Aug 10th - Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
Aug 11th - "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs
Aug 11th - 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
Aug 11th - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
Aug 11th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
Aug 11th - Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
Aug 12th - 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
Aug 12th - Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
Aug 12th - Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
Aug 15th - Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
Aug 15th - Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
Aug 16th - Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
Aug 17th - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
Aug 17th - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
Aug 17th - Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
Aug 18th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
Aug 18th - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
Aug 18th - Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
Aug 19th - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
Aug 20th - 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
Aug 20th - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
Aug 20th - Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
Aug 20th - Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
Aug 20th - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
Aug 21st - Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
Aug 21st - NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
Aug 22nd - 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
Aug 22nd - Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
Aug 23rd - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
Aug 23rd - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
Aug 23rd - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
Aug 23rd - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
Aug 24th - STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
Aug 25th - Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
Aug 25th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
Aug 25th - STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
Aug 26th - Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs Calif Angels
Aug 26th - French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
Aug 27th - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
Aug 27th - Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
Aug 29th - Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
Aug 29th - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
Aug 29th - NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
Aug 31st - "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
Aug 31st - Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
Aug 31st - Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
Sep 1st - Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
Sep 1st - US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
Sep 2nd - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
Sep 2nd - Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
Sep 3rd - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth
Sep 3rd - England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval
Sep 3rd - NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game
Sep 4th - Igor Paklin of USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
Sep 4th - NY Mets Gary Carter's 2 HRs ties record of 5 HRs in 2 games
Sep 6th - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
Sep 7th - 99th US Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76)
Sep 7th - Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83)
Sep 8th - "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers
Sep 8th - 105th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64)
Sep 8th - 7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose Calif
Sep 8th - Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool
Sep 8th - Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
Sep 8th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
Sep 8th - Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits
Sep 9th - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
Sep 9th - Race riot in Birmingham England
Sep 11th - Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
Sep 11th - Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
Sep 11th - Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
Sep 11th - Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
Sep 12th - Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
Sep 13th - 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
Sep 13th - John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
Sep 14th - Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
Sep 15th - 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16½-11½ at The Belfry, England
Sep 15th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
Sep 15th - Olof Palme forms Sweden minority govt
Sep 15th - Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
Sep 15th - Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert
Sep 15th - Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
Sep 17th - Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Sep 18th - "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
Sep 18th - BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston
Sep 19th - 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1)
Sep 20th - Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
Sep 20th - Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
Sep 21st - Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Sep 22nd - 37th Emmy Awards: Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show & Tyne Daly win
Sep 22nd - Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson
Sep 22nd - Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed
Sep 22nd - France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior
Sep 22nd - Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ
Sep 22nd - Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
Sep 22nd - Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
Sep 22nd - St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
Sep 22nd - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
Sep 24th - Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
Sep 24th - Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
Sep 24th - Expos Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice
Sep 24th - Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
Sep 25th - Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
Sep 25th - Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
Sep 25th - Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season
Sep 26th - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
Sep 27th - 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket
Sep 27th - Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
Sep 28th - "Don't Lose My Number" by Phil Collins peaks at #4
Sep 28th - "Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25
Sep 28th - "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
Sep 28th - "Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87
Sep 28th - NASA launches Intelsat VA
Sep 28th - Race riot in London area of Brixton
Sep 29th - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV
Sep 29th - "Amazing Stories," by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV
Sep 29th - "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
Sep 29th - 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
Sep 29th - Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
Sep 29th - Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
Sep 30th - Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
Oct 1st - Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
Oct 2nd - Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
Oct 2nd - Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
Oct 3rd - 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched