WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 1985
Find out what all happened October to November 1985

The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people. (13. November 1985)

Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released. (20. November 1985)

Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor. (13. November 1985)

The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines. (26. October 1985)

The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization. (7. October 1985)

Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. (19. November 1985)

The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. (4. October 1985)

The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). (3. October 1985)

The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis. (1. October 1985)

The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history. (7. October 1985)

United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. (10. October 1985)

The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. (15. November 1985)

Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud. (19. November 1985)

Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. (30. October 1985)

PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. (6. October 1985)

Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia. (29. October 1985)

Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid. (23. November 1985)

United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison. (21. November 1985)

A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes. (15. November 1985)

Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty. (19. November 1985)