WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1985
Find out what all happened February to June 1985

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

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe. (7. April 1985)

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

Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months. (23. April 1985)

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

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

Hezbollah is founded. (16. February 1985)

The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. (28. February 1985)

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

Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador. (19. June 1985)

STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist. (17. June 1985)

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree. (17. March 1985)

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

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

A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. (23. June 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)

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

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

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

Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. (19. February 1985)