1985 started on a Tuesday
Here are some events which occurred that year and matter to me:
- The Internet Domain Name system was created
- Ronald Reagan was privately sworn in for a second term
- The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopened since Francisco Franco Bahamonde closed it in 1969
- Jeremy Levin was freed from Lebanon
- Gorbachev became the leader of the soon-to-be-buried USSR
- Speaking of the soviets, they started to bow out of Afghanistan. History will prove them right to invade, wrong to leave.
- South Africa ended its ban on interracial marriages
- Release of
Back to the Future; Marty McFly's "present time"
- Kuwait instated right to vote for women; revoked it in 1999 and reinstated it in 2005
- Discovery of the so-called Ozone Hole
- Burial of Josef Mengele
- The reviled Schengen Agreement was signed
- Founding of Ghibli Studio in Tokyo
- Greenpeace vessel the
Rainbow Warrior was sunken by DGSE (France's own CIA) agents under orders of then-president François Mitterrand (socialist)
- Iran-Contra
- An American-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic
- Release of Super Mario Bros, alongside the NES
- Giancarlo Sani was murdered by the little pricks of the Italian mob
- World Youth Day was proclaimed by John Paul II
- DNA was first used in a criminal case (according to Wikipedia)
This is fun!
