WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1985
Find out what all happened January to May 1985

Hezbollah is founded. (16. February 1985)

Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research. (20. March 1985)

The song "We Are the World" receives its international release. (7. March 1985)

Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. (28. January 1985)

The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). (15. March 1985)

The Internet's Domain Name System is created. (1. January 1985)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. (7. January 1985)

1985 United States–Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead. (31. May 1985)

The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. (4. March 1985)

Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (20. March 1985)

The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C.. (13. March 1985)

Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years. (5. February 1985)

EastEnders BBC's flagship soap opera broadcasts for the first time. (19. February 1985)

Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses. (29. May 1985)

A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa. (13. January 1985)

FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas. (19. April 1985)

U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk. (19. April 1985)

William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital. (19. February 1985)

Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months. (29. May 1985)

Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba. (20. May 1985)