WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1985
Find out what all happened August to 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)

Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. (7. August 1985)

Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137. (2. August 1985)

Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. (23. August 1985)

Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit (11. September 1985)

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

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

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

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

A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. (1. September 1985)

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

In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices. (6. November 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)

Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic. (14. September 1985)

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

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

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

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