WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1985
Find out what all happened January to June 1985

Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. (11. May 1985)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. (3. March 1985)

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

Hezbollah is founded. (16. February 1985)

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

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

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

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)

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

Brazilian military dictatorship ends. (15. March 1985)