September 1985 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1985 Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
• 02 Sep 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
• 03 Sep 1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I) - Discovery 6-returns to Earth
• 04 Sep 1985 Igor Paklin of the USSR sets a new high jump world record at 2.41 metres.
• 06 Sep 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
• 07 Sep 1985 99th US Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76)
• 08 Sep 1985 105th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64)
• 09 Sep 1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
• 11 Sep 1985 Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
• 13 Sep 1985 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
• 14 Sep 1985 Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
• 15 Sep 1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
• 16 Sep 1985 Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs resigns as chairman of Apple Computer.
• 17 Sep 1985 Soyuz T-14 carries three cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station.
• 18 Sep 1985 Song & Dance opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
• 19 Sep 1985 Allied Chemical (Allied Corp.) changes its company name to Allied-Signal Incorp.
• 20 Sep 1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
• 21 Sep 1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 22 Sep 1985 37th Emmy Awards: Cagney and Lacey, Cosby Show and Tyne Daly win
• 23 Sep 1985 Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by Camorra.
• 24 Sep 1985 Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
• 25 Sep 1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
• 26 Sep 1985 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
• 27 Sep 1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits the Atlantic coast of the USA.
• 28 Sep 1985 Every Step Of The Way by John Waite peaks at #25
• 29 Sep 1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents, returns to NBC-TV
• 30 Sep 1985 Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)

Famous Birthday

• M Pokora

  French singer and dancer of Polish descent.

• Valérie Bègue

  French reality television participant and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss France 2008, representing the Réunion island, an overseas...

• T-Pain

  American musician.

• Madeline Zima

  American actress.

• Tatiana Maslany

  TV Actress.

• Song Joong-Ki
• Kayden Kross
• Tomáš Berdych

  Czech tennis player.

• Dani Pedrosa

  Spanish motorcycle racer.

• Talulah Riley

  English actress.

• Rina Akiyama

  Japanese model and actress.

• Jonatan Cerrada

  Belgian-born singer who became a French Pop Idol.

• Cindy Fabre
• Amii Grove
• J R Smith

  American basketball player.

• Aya Ueto

  Japanese actress and singer (Z-1).

• Max Minghella

  English actor.

• Alban Préaubert

  French competitive figure skater who won six ISU Grand Prix medals and five French national bronze medals (2006, 2008–11).

• Carlo Aquino

  Filipino actor and singer.

• Brahim Zaibat
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Famous Deaths

• Simone Signoret

  German-born actress, winner of the Best Actress Oscar for "Room At the Top" and the Best Foreign Film Award for "Madame Rosa" in 1977.

• Italo Calvino

  Italian noted writer who dominated the literary scene after the war.

• Leon Orthel

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Johnny Desmond

  singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at age 65.

• Charles F Richter

  US seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85.

• Heleb MacInnes

  US spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77.

• Isabel Jeans

  Actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93.

• Alexa Kenin

  Actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23.

• Jay Youngblood

  American professional wrestler (Born 1955).

• Andrew C Thornton II

  American drug smuggler (Born 1945).

• Cootie Williams

  American jazz trumpeter (Born 1910).

• Gu Long

  Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (Born 1937).

• Charles Richter

  American geologist and seismologist, a researcher on the magnitude of earthquakes along with their geography and statistics.

• Dane Rudhyar

  French-American astrologer, one of most noted and respected astrologers of the 20th century.

• Axel Springer

  German media mogul, journalist and publisher.

• Jock Stein

  Jock Stein was a Scottish football player and manager.

• Joe Jones

  American singer-songwriter (d. 2005).

• Laura Ashley

  Welsh-English fashion designer founded Laura Ashley plc (d. 1985).

• Johnny Marks

  American composer and songwriter (d. 1985).

• Abe Lenstra

  Dutch international footballer (d. 1985).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love
2. John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
3. Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
4. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero
5. Kool & The Gang - Cherish

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Madonna - Into The Groove
2. David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street
3. UB40 featuring Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe
4. Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero
5. Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)