February 1985 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1985 -61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Maybell, Colorado (state record).
• 02 Feb 1985 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
• 03 Feb 1985 Joanne Carner win LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
• 04 Feb 1985 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons.
• 05 Feb 1985 Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
• 07 Feb 1985 "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York City, New York.
• 08 Feb 1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea.
• 09 Feb 1985 U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico (his body is discovered March 5).
• 10 Feb 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
• 11 Feb 1985 Jordan King Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord
• 12 Feb 1985 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary.
• 13 Feb 1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
• 14 Feb 1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut, Lebanon.
• 15 Feb 1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
• 16 Feb 1985 New Jersey Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
• 17 Feb 1985 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
• 19 Feb 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
• 20 Feb 1985 Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
• 21 Feb 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date: 44,970 (Atlanta Hawks at Detroit Pistons).
• 23 Feb 1985 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General.
• 24 Feb 1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in The King & I
• 26 Feb 1985 27th Grammy Awards: "What's Love Got to Do With It", Cyndi Lauper win.
• 27 Feb 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief.
• 28 Feb 1985 The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

Famous Birthday

• Cristiano Ronaldo

  Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national...

• Cristiano Ronaldo

  Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national...

• Julia Volkova

  Russian singer and actress (t.

• Leslie (singer)
• Kris Humphries

  American basketball player.

• Jelena Jankovic

  Serbian tennis player who was ranked number one in 2008.

• Joakim Noah

  American basketball player.

• Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche
• Crystal Reed

  TV Actress.

• Deborah Ann Woll
• Melody Gardot

  Blues Singer.

• David Gallagher

  American actor.

• Tatiana Silva

  Belgian model, born to a father coming from Capo Verde, she was elected "Miss Belgium" in 2005 when she was working to become a personal...

• Arielle Kebbel

  American actress.

• Fefe Dobson

  Pop Singer.

• Eduardo Cruz
• Jessica-Jane Clement
• Amélie Cazé
• Haylie Duff

  American actress and singer.

• Larissa Riquelme

  Paraguayan model and actress.

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Famous Deaths

• James Hadley Chase

  English writer (Born 1906).

• Matt Monro

  English singer (Born 1932).

• Tom Greenway

  Actor (Miami Story), dies of a heart attack at 75.

• Heinz Eric Roemheld

  Composer, dies of pneumonia at 83.

• Ulysses Sipmson Kay

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Nicholas Colssanto

  Actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61.

• Elizabeth Julesberg

  Author (Dick & Jane).

• George Holmes

  Actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66.

• Alexander Scourby

  Actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71.

• Charita Bauer

  actress (Mary - Aldrich Family), dies at age 62 in New York City, New York.

• Wanda Perry

  Actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman), dies at 67.

• Ben Abruzzo

  American businessman and balloonist (Born 1930).

• Albert Dondeyne

  Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at age 83.

• Willy Alberti [Carel Verbruggen]

  Dutch singer, dies at age 58.

• Eric Herfst

  Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at age 47.

• Efrem A Zimbalist

  Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at age 95.

• Henry Cabot Lodge

  American politician (Senator-Republican/diplomat) dies at age 82.

• Georges-Emile Lapalme

  French-Canadian politician (Born 1907).

• Clarence ''Ducky'' Nash

  American voice actor (Born 1904).

• David Byron

  English singer-songwriter (Uriah Heep and Spice) (d. 1985).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
2. Wham! - Careless Whisper
3. Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
4. Billy Ocean - Loverboy
5. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
2. Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well
3. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
4. King - Love And Pride
5. Wham! - Last Christmas / Everything She Wants