January 1985 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1985 International Youth Year begins
• 02 Jan 1985 Australia beats West Indies by innings at Sydney Cricket Ground, Bob Holland 10 match wickets.
• 03 Jan 1985 Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.
• 05 Jan 1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
• 07 Jan 1985 King & I opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
• 10 Jan 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua.
• 13 Jan 1985 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises US$17,100,000.
• 14 Jan 1985 Sixteen indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees.
• 15 Jan 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected President
• 16 Jan 1985 Playboy announces end of stapling centerfolds
• 17 Jan 1985 Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (versus England).
• 18 Jan 1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise.
• 19 Jan 1985 Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
• 20 Jan 1985 Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27 degrees F (-33 degrees C) in Chicago, Illinois).
• 21 Jan 1985 -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Mitchell, North Carolina (state record).
• 22 Jan 1985 Cold wave damages 90 percent of Florida's citrus crop.
• 24 Jan 1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched.
• 25 Jan 1985 Black & Blue, premieres in Paris
• 26 Jan 1985 42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins.
• 27 Jan 1985 Doug Henning & His World... closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York after 60 performances
• 28 Jan 1985 12th American Music Award
• 29 Jan 1985 Pop stars in LA record We Are The World
• 31 Jan 1985 South African President PW Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence.

Famous Birthday

• Lewis Hamilton

  British Formula One car racing driver, he won 3 times the F1 world championship.

• Lewis Hamilton

  British Formula One car racing driver, he won 3 times the F1 world championship.

• J Cole

  German-American rapper and producer.

• Doutzen Kroes

  Model.

• Athina Onassis Roussel
• Mélanie Bernier
• Simone Simons

  Dutch mezzo-soprano singer and the lead vocalist of symphonic metal band Epica.

• Isabel Lucas

  Australian actress.

• Salomé Stévenin
• Sasha Pivovarova

  Russian model and actress.

• Olga Sorokina
• Marc Gasol

  Spanish basketball player.

• Céline Bosquet
• Orianthi (guitarist)
• Seïd Khiter
• Laura Zuniga
• Libby Trickett

  Australian swimmer.

• Michael Trevino

  TV Actor.

• Grégory Baugé

  French racing cyclist, he joined the junior spring team in 2002.

• Yohana Cobo

  Spanish actress.

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Famous Deaths

• James Cameron

  Canadian film director.

• James Beard

  United States -- Culinary expert / author (Delights & Prejudices).

• Kamatari Fujiwara

  Japanese actor (Born 1905).

• Brian Horrocks

  British general (Born 1895).

• Brian Gwynne Horrocks

  English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life), dies at age 89 (born 1895).

• Robert H W Welch Jr

  US founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at age 85.

• Mahmoud Taha

  Sudanese Muslim leader, hanged at age 76.

• Barbara Cowsill

  rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema.

• Johnny Guarnieri

  jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at age 67.

• Sigerson Clifford

  Irish poet and writer (Born 1913).

• Lovro von Matacic

  Croatian conductor (Born 1899).

• Robert L Surtees

  American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (Born 1906).

• Mary Hardy

  Australian radio and television presenter (Born 1931).

• Sir William McKell

  Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (Born 1891).

• Sir Arthur Bryant

  British historian (Born 1899).

• Ilias Iliou

  Greek politician (Born 1904).

• Eddie Graham

  American professional wrestler and promoter (Born 1930).

• Robert Mayer

  German-English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1985).

• Robert Fitzgerald

  American poet critic and translator (d. 1985).

• Anton Karas

  Austrian zither player and composer (Born 1906).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Madonna - Like A Virgin
2. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
3. Duran Duran - Wild Boys
4. Jack Wagner - All I Need
5. Philip Bailey - Easy Lover

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You
2. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
3. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
4. Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
5. Wham! - Last Christmas / Everything She Wants