March 1985 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
• 02 Mar 1985 US approves screening test for AIDS.
• 03 Mar 1985 Moonlighting with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres
• 04 Mar 1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
• 05 Mar 1985 New York Islanders' Mike Bossy is first to score 50 goals in eight straight seasons.
• 06 Mar 1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of The King and I.
• 07 Mar 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
• 08 Mar 1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
• 09 Mar 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
• 10 Mar 1985 Dallas Mavericks' coach Dick Motta is fourth NBA coach to win 700 games.
• 11 Mar 1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
• 12 Mar 1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtics' record 60 points.
• 13 Mar 1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
• 14 Mar 1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
• 15 Mar 1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in ten rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 16 Mar 1985 Denny McLain, pitcher, convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years.
• 17 Mar 1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the ''Night Stalker'', commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
• 18 Mar 1985 Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle
• 19 Mar 1985 Spin Magazine begins publishing
• 20 Mar 1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• 21 Mar 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South Africa, 19 killed.
• 22 Mar 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA.
• 23 Mar 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
• 24 Mar 1985 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
• 25 Mar 1985 57th Academy Awards - Amadeus, F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win
• 27 Mar 1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 28 Mar 1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
• 29 Mar 1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist.
• 31 Mar 1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises US$27,400,000.

Famous Birthday

• Keira Knightley

  Movie Actress.

• Stromae

  Belgian rapper born to a Rwandan father (architect) and a Belgian mother.

• Emile Hirsch

  American actor.

• Stanislas Wawrinka

  Swiss professional tennis player, born to a German father of Polish descent.

• Cyril Féraud
• Kellan Lutz

  American model and actor.

• Eva Amurri

  American actress, the daughter of Susan Sarandon from her romance with Franco Amurri.

• Jessica Szohr

  American actress.

• Reggie Bush

  American football player.

• Théodora Richards
• Dafne Fernandez
• Laura Tabourin
• Alaska Thunderfuck 5000
• Lizzie Brocheré
• Whitney Port

  American reality television personality.

• Nathalie Kelley

  Movie Actress.

• Yolanthe Cabau van Kasbergen
• Jonathan Groff

  American stage and television actor.

• Eva Angelina

  American porn actress and producer.

• Steve Mandanda
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Famous Deaths

• Michael Redgrave

  Bristol, England -- Actor (Browning Version, Lady Vanishes).

• Patricia Roberts Harris

  American politician (Representative-Democrat) dies at age 60.

• Eugene List

  US concert pianist, dies at age 66.

• John B Kelly Jr

  chairman US Olympics Committee, dies at age 57.

• Sarah Blanding

  first US female college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at age 86.

• Eric Sloane

  US artist, dies at age 80.

• Victor W Farris

  inventor of paper milk carton, dies.

• George Schick

  Czechoslovakian conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at age 76.

• Robert W Woodruff

  CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at age 95.

• Thomas Creighton

  US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hours), dies at age 33.

• Eugene Ormandy [Blau]

  Hungarian/US conductor, dies at age 85 (born 1899).

• Roger Huntington Sessions

  US composer (Black Masks), dies at age 88.

• Singing Nun

  [Janine Deckers] commits suicide in Belgium at age 52.

• Anton Constandse

  Dutch anarchist/writer, dies at age 85.

• Nand Baert

  Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at age 53.

• Harry Catterick

  English football manager (Born 1919).

• Radha Krishna Choudhary

  Indian historian and writer (Born 1921).

• Richard Beeching

  chairman of British Railways (Born 1913).

• Peter Charanis

  Greek-American scholar and professor (Born 1908).

• Ben Hardwick

  Britain's youngest liver transplant patient (Born 1982).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Wham! - Careless Whisper
2. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
3. Phil Collins - One More Night
4. Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
5. Madonna - Material Girl

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well
2. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
3. King - Love And Pride
4. Philip Bailey With Phil Collins - Easy Lover
5. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is