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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

• January 7, 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan’s first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
• January 13, 1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• February 5, 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• February 20, 1985 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
• March 3, 1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
• June 6, 1985 – The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
• June 14, 1985 – TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
• July 19, 1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
• September 4, 1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
• 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.

Who Were Born On 1985?

• January 4, 1985 – Danielle Campo, Canadian swimmer
• January 10, 1985 – Sofia Yfantidou, Greek heptathlete
• January 12, 1985 – Gerard Lawson, American football player
• February 8, 1985 – Nao Matsushita, Japanese actress and singer
• March 4, 1985 – Jonas Troest, Danish footballer
• March 22, 1985 – Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
• March 29, 1985 – Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer
• June 30, 1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentinian footballer
• August 20, 1985 – Stephen Ward, Irish footballer
• October 24, 1985 – Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (d. 2014)