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1985 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2030. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1985 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1985

• February 20, 1985 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
• April 19, 1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
• April 23, 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
• May 20, 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• June 17, 1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
• August 12, 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
• August 23, 1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• November 9, 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
• November 13, 1985 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor.
• December 12, 1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

Who Were Born On 1985?

• January 3, 1985 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
• January 31, 1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer
• February 14, 1985 – Karima Adebibe, English model and actress
• April 27, 1985 – José António de Miranda da Silva Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• June 5, 1985 – Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian tennis player
• June 30, 1985 – Rafał Blechacz, Polish pianist
• July 12, 1985 – Gianluca Curci, Italian footballer
• August 11, 1985 – Asher Roth, American rapper
• November 15, 1985 – Charron Fisher, American basketball player
• December 24, 1985 – Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player