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Friday August 09, 1985
US date format: 8/9/1985, UK date format: 9/8/1985
It was Friday, under the sign of Leo (see birth chart on August 9, 1985). The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Anna Kendrick and Filipe Luís.
In that special week of August people in US were listening to Shout by Tears For Fears.
In UK Into The Groove by Madonna was in the top 5 hits.
My Beautiful Laundrette, directed by Stephen Frears, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1985
while The Lover by Marguerite Duras was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Stingray.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Dragon Buster or Dun Darach.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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Movies
Which were the most popular Movies released in those months?
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Starring: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Graham
Warning Sign
Directed by: Hal Barwood
Starring: Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn
Teen Wolf
Directed by: Rod Daniel
Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine
Country: United States of America
Year of the Dragon
Directed by: Michael Cimino
Starring: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, Leonard Termo
American Flyers
Directed by: John Badham
Starring: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul
Historical Events
Which were the important events of August 09, 1985?
- St. Nathy (or David)
- Feast day of the great martyr Saint Panteleimon in Russian Orthodox Church
- St. Fedlimid/Felimy
- St. Romanus Ostiarius
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Holidays
- Anna Kendrick: American actress.
- Filipe Luís
- Luca Filippi: Italian race car driver.
- Haruka Kinami: Japanese actress.
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Famous Birthday
- Clive Churchill: Australian rugby league footballer (Born...
Famous Deaths
Music charts
Which were the top hits in that special week of August 09, 1985?
- Tears For Fears - Shout
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Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
- Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- Corey Hart - Never Surrender
- Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love
- DeBarge - Who's Holding Donna Now
- Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
- Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love
- The Power Station - Get It On (Bang A Gong)
- Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love
Top #10 songs in the USA
- Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love
- Debarge - Who's Holding Donna Now
- Cameo - Attack Me With Your Love
- Luther Vandross - It's Over Now
- Rick James - Glow
- Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You
- I Wonder If I Take You Home - Lisa Lisa And Clult Jam With Full Force
- Patti LaBelle - Stir It Up
- Rene & Angela - Save Your Love (For #1)
- Kool & The Gang - Cherish
Top #10 R&B songs
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TV Series
Which were the most popular TV Series released in those months?
Stingray
Watchdog
Directed by: Yuri Kovalev
Ein Mann macht klar Schiff
Nattsudd
Oceanquest
Magazine Covers
What news were making the headlines those days in August 1985?
- LIFE: The Fabulous Fifties
- Time: TIME Magazine Cover: South Africa -- Aug. 5, 1985
- SportsIllustrated: Sports Illustrated: no.8968
Books
Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks?
The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its
Lonesome Dove
By: Larry McMurtry
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel
Nutcracker
By: Shana Alexander
The New York Times–bestselling classic true-crime story of Frances Bradshaw Schreuder, the Manhattan socialite who persuaded the one assassin who couldn’t refuse her—her teenage son—to kill her multimillionaire father In August
The Class
By: Erich Segal
From world-renowed author Erich Segal comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary members of the Harvard class of 1958 and the women with whom their lives are intertwined.
The Fourth Deadly Sin
By: Lawrence Sanders
Retired police detective chief Edward Delaney is called back to the force to hunt a killer who’s crazy like a fox On a rainy November night, Dr.
Videogames
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