World Events for 1985

Date	Event
28 March	Bernhard Goetz is indicted on charges of attempted murder
25 May	Cyclone kills 10,000 in Bangladesh
25 May	Rock Hudson announces he has AIDS
1 September	Wreckage of RMS Titanic found
7 October	Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is high jacked in the Mediterranean
1985	CD-ROM developed

  1985                   Americans Awaken to the AIDS Crisis, 1985

· "We Are The World" is recorded by USA for Africa, America's response to the British "Do They Know It's Christmas"

· LIVE AID in London and Philadelphia, beamed around the world

· Crack cocaine starts to appear.

· Billy Joel marries Christie Brinkley... millions of men suddenly feel like they stand a chance with an attractive woman.

· Brussels, Belgium: 39 dead, 250 wounded during a soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus

· Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is bombed by the French goverment during protests of it's nuclear testing in the Pacific

· Earthquake in Mexico / Volcano erupts in Colombia; 1000s killed

· Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the Soviet Union

· New coke is introduced in April and quickly replaced with original Coke

· Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic camera in July

· Bernhard Goetz is charged with attempted murder

· Ethiopia blocks the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews.

· Hole in the ozone layer, first detected in 1977, is now indisputable.

· In October, the worlds largest atom smasher goes online in Illinois.

· Nintendo home entertainment system introduced.

· Extra second added to the calendar year.

· Leaded gas is officially banned in the US

· Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened.

· Rock Hudson, the first major public figure to die to AIDS, dies on October 2.

· Karen Ann Quinlan, coma patient, dies of pneumonia. She was the first person to die in the "right-to-die" controversy debate.

· 1987, Star Wars' Chewbacca was caught with cocaine.

Notable Events of the Year The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp commemorating what would have been the artist's 50th birthday. A record-breaking 500 million Elvis stamps would be sold. Madonna becomes only the second female artist (the first was The Singing Nun) to have the top single ("Like A Virgin") and top album (Like A Virgin) simultaneously. The album outsells all others this year, and Madonna sells more singles than any other act in 1985. She also becomes the first artist to simultaneously hold the top two slots on the UK singles chart with "Into The Groove" and "Holiday." Wham! becomes the first western pop group to perform in the People's Republic of China and to release records there. John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls Royce goes for over $2 million at a New York auction. The Second British Invasion reaches its high water mark in 1985; as summer begins, Madonna is the only all-American act in the US Top Ten, the rest being British (except for The Power Station, which is Anglo-American.) Non-Americans have a record eight consecutive US chart-toppers and seven of these are British. (The eighth is the Norwegian group A-Ha.) Queen, Yes, Iron Maiden, Whitesnake and Rod Stewart are among the performers at the Rock in Rio festival, touted as the biggest rock concert of all time. Ian Stewart, co-founder of the Rolling Stones, dies of a heart attack at 47. Rick Nelson, his fiancee and his band die when their private plane crashes in Texas.