December 1985 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in December 1985.
The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on December 1985: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of December 1985?

Events

01 Dec 1985 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
02 Dec 1985 Mystery of Edwin Drood opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 performances
03 Dec 1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B) - Atlantis 2 lands at Edwards AFB
04 Dec 1985 Les Miserables opens at Palace Theatre, London
05 Dec 1985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rises above the 1500 level for first time.
06 Dec 1985 United Kingdom joins US Strategic Defence Initiative project.
07 Dec 1985 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB).
08 Dec 1985 Laurie Rinker / Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
09 Dec 1985 Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
10 Dec 1985 Bill to balance the US federal budget passed by Congress.
11 Dec 1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
12 Dec 1985 248 US soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
13 Dec 1985 Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh and Bruce Reid (vs. India)
14 Dec 1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
15 Dec 1985 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed
16 Dec 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
17 Dec 1985 US President Ronald Reagan signs the Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-185) directing Treasury to issue 0.9167 fine gold bullion coins: $50 (one ounce), $25 (half ounce), $10 (quarter ounce), $5 (tenth ounce). The gold is to be acquired from natural deposits in the US or territory or possession when possible, and when not, from the US reserves. Profits from sales would be used to pay down the national debt.
19 Dec 1985 Wind in the Willows opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
20 Dec 1985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points).
21 Dec 1985 Alice Miller / Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
22 Dec 1985 Wind in the Willows closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
24 Dec 1985 Right wing extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle, Washington.
27 Dec 1985 Terrorists kill 20 andwound 110 attacking El Al at Rome andVienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
28 Dec 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
30 Dec 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released

Famous Birthday

Amanda Seyfried
American actress.
Dean Ambrose
Wrestler.
Raven-Symoné
American actress and singer.
Janelle Monáe
American singer-songwriter and producer.
Frankie Muniz
TV Actor.
Dulce María
Mexican singer-songwriter dancer and actress (RBD and Jeans).
Dwight Howard
American basketball player.
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Reality Star.
André-Pierre Gignac
French professional football/soccer player, known personally by teammates and friends as simply Dédé.
Amaury Leveaux
French swimming champion, has held several world records, winner of Gold and Silver medals at the 2012 Olympics.
Adil Rami
French professional football/soccer player who plays as a central defender for Spanish club Sevilla FC and the France national team.
Beth Behrs
TV Actress.
Alexa Ray Joel
Daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley.
Meredith Kercher
English murder victim (d. 2007).
Aiko Kayo
Japanese idol singer.
Laurence Leboeuf
Canadian actress.
Shay Laren
Hana Soukupová
Czech model.
Joanna Jablczynska
Taryn Terrell
American wrestler/model.
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Famous Deaths

Dian Fossey
Zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53.
Rick Nelson
American singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at age 45 (born 1940).
Anne Baxter
American author, actress and noted family, the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Ian Stewart
Scottish-British musician and rock star, a behind-the-scenes founding member of The Rolling Stones.
Roger Maris
American baseball player, famous for setting a record unbeaten for 37 years until Marc McGwire eclipsed the record for the most home runs in...
Burr Tillstrom
American entertainer, creator of "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" a popular puppet act.
D Boon
American musician, guitarist and vocalist of Minutemen, a Californian punk rock group.
Marcel Boereboom
Belgian musicologist, dies at age 83.
James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18) commit suicide
sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages.
Xuan Dieu
Vietnamese poet (Born 1916).
Camille Tourville
Professional wrestler (Born 1927).
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith
Last Lincoln descendant (Born 1904).
Harold P Warren
American movie director (d. 1928).
Potter Stewart
94th US Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in New Hampshire at age 70.
Sam Gillman
Actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70.
Paul Castellano
Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant.
Catherine Doherty
Russian-Canadian activist founded the Madonna House Apostolate (d. 1985).
Burleigh Grimes
American baseball player and manager (d. 1985).
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Mauritian philanthropist and politician 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985).
Sam Spiegel
Austrian-born Academy Award winning American film producer (Betrayal, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia,...
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