WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1985
Find out what all happened January to July 1985

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

Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17 (7. July 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)

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

The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone. (1. January 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)

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

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

The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira. (10. July 1985)

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

U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System. (27. June 1985)

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

The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. (20. July 1985)

Vice President George Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon. (13. July 1985)

The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the remains exumed are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979. (6. June 1985)

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

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

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

The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas. (20. April 1985)