WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JUNE 1985
Find out what all happened March to June 1985

Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. (30. June 1985)

Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures. (3. March 1985)

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

Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991. (16. March 1985)

Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon. He will not be released until 1991. (9. June 1985)

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

Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. (13. May 1985)

Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife. (15. June 1985)

A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others. (8. March 1985)

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

Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people. (25. May 1985)

The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York. (31. March 1985)

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

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

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

A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. (3. March 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)

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

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)