WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1985
Find out what all happened February to May 1985

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

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

Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years. (5. February 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)

FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas. (19. April 1985)

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

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

EastEnders BBC's flagship soap opera broadcasts for the first time. (19. February 1985)

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

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

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

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

Hezbollah is founded. (16. February 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)

Brazilian military dictatorship ends. (15. March 1985)

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