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1985-1-5
Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
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1985
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Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
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1/1 - International Youth Year begins
1/1 - US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)
1/1 - VH-1 made its broadcasting debut
1/1 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
1/1 - The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
1/2 - Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
1/2 - "Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score"
1/2 - Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
1/2 - "Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts"
1/2 - 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
1/3 - Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
1/3 - "Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews"
1/5 - Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
1/5 - Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
1/7 - "Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame"
1/7 - KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
1/7 - Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1/7 - King & I opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1/8 - Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1/9 - Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1/10 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
1/13 - "Express train derails in Ethiopia, killing at least 428"
1/13 - "Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,100,000"
1/13 - Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
1/13 - 99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
1/13 - 23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
1/14 - 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
1/14 - M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert)
1/14 - British pound sinks to record low $US1.11
1/15 - Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
1/15 - Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India
1/15 - Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1/15 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
1/16 - Playboy announces end of stapling centerfolds
1/17 - Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
1/18 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1/19 - Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
1/19 - 4 die in a car & train crash in Buda Ill
1/20 - "Super Bowl XIX: SF 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford Super Bowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB"
1/20 - "Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27ﾂｰF (-33ﾂｰC) in Chicago)"
1/21 - "-19ﾂｰF (-28ﾂｰC), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)"
1/21 - "-34ﾂｰF (-37ﾂｰC), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)"
1/21 - Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1/21 - Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1/22 - "-30ﾂｰF (-34ﾂｰC), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)"
1/22 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1/22 - "Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA"
1/23 - Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
1/24 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1/25 - "Black & Blue, premieres in Paris"
1/25 - "Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)"
1/26 - 42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins
1/26 - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
1/27 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14
1/27 - Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
1/27 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1/27 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1/27 - Doug Henning & His World... closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 perf
1/28 - "Charity single ""We Are the World"" is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and other pop stars)"
1/28 - 12th American Music Award: Cyndi Lauper & Lionel Richie win
1/29 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
1/31 - Harrigan 'n Hart opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
1/31 - South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence