WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1985
Find out what all happened July to November 1985

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

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

Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union. (9. November 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)

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

The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people. (13. 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)

Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government. (20. September 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)

Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport. (22. August 1985)

Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music. (19. September 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)

Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31. (6. September 1985)

The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization. (7. October 1985)

The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). (3. October 1985)

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

Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor. (13. November 1985)

The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy. (19. July 1985)

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

Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster. (12. August 1985)