* 1985 – Clarke MacArthur, Canadian hockey player

* 1985 – Al Mukadam, Canadian director, producer, screenwriter and actor

* 1985 – Frank Ongfiang, Italian footballer

* 1985 – James Alexandrou, English actor

* 1985 – Brennan Boesch, American baseball player

* 1985 – Jeísa Chiminazzo, Brazilian model

* 1985 – Ted Ginn, Jr., American football player

* 1985 – Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress

* 1985 – Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter ( Serebro )

* 1985 – Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer ( Morning Musume and Hangry & Angry )

* 1901 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American call girl, columnist, and singer

* 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

* 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Nikica Jelavić, Croatian footballer

* 1985 – Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American painter

* 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist

* 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer

* 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Luca Filippi, Italian race car driver

* 1985 – Anna Kendrick, American actress

* 1985 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer

* 1985 – JaMarcus Russell, American football player

* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.

7 ( Zondervan, 1985 ): 15 ; he cites Harrison, R. K. < U > Introduction to the Old Testament </ u >.

In 1985, the U. S. began its growing trade deficit with China.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

An influential report on Contra atrocities was issued by lawyer Reed Brody shortly before the 1985 U. S. Congressional vote on Contra aid.

East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.

A definition of AIDS agreed upon in 1985 by the World Health Organization in Bangui did not require a positive HIV test, but since 1985, many African countries have added positive HIV tests to the Bangui criteria for AIDS or changed their definitions to match those of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control.

( Parton's March 1983 performance at London's Dominion Theatre from this tour was filmed and broadcast as a television special in the U. S .) From 1984 to 1985, she toured alongside Kenny Rogers for the Real Love Tour.

Godzilla 1985 has been released on home video several times in the U. S. The first release was by New World in the mid 80's, another by Starmaker video ( who had acquired some of New World's library ) in the 1992, and again by Anchor Bay in 1997 All home video releases include the Bambi Meets Godzilla animated short with the exception of the Starmaker release.

Between 1979 and 1985, under John Negroponte's appointment as U. S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U. S. military and economic aid to Honduras jumped from $ 31 million to $ 282 million.

Between 1979 and 1985, U. S. development aid fell from 80 % of the total to 6 %.

In June 1981, the Army awarded AM General a contract for development of several more prototype vehicles to be delivered to the U. S. government for another series of tests, and the company was later awarded the initial production contract for 55, 000 HMMWVs to be delivered in 1985.

802. 11 technology has its origins in a 1985 ruling by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission that released the ISM band for unlicensed use.

Brown, Sr. ( 1900 – 1985 ), U. S. representative ( D-KY, 1933 – 1935 )

Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri ( 1985 – 93 ) and as a U. S. Senator from Missouri ( 1995 – 2001 ).

However, in late autumn of 1984, the U. S. and the Soviet Union did agree to resume arms control talks in early 1985.

John Lott and Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute study the coverage of economic news by looking at a panel of 389 U. S. newspapers from 1991 to 2004, and from 1985 to 2004 for a subsample comprising the top 10 newspapers and the Associated Press.

U. S. Army mechanized infantry dismount from an M113 armored personnel carrier during training in 1985.

The plight of U. S. Route 66 in particular, whose disappearance from the map in 1985 turned places like Glenrio, Texas and Amboy, California into overnight ghost towns, began to capture public attention with Route 66 associations springing up in every state as concern over preservation of decaying motels and other roadside infrastructure of the neon era came into view.

* 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.