WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1985
Find out what all happened March to November 1985

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

The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. (4. September 1985)

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

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

TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece. (14. June 1985)

The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy. (19. July 1985)

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

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

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

Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31. (6. September 1985)

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

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

Brazilian military dictatorship ends. (15. March 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)

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

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe. (7. April 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 Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history. (7. October 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)

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