It has been suggested that, after Ayckbourn himself, the person who is used the most in his plays is his mother, particularly as Susan in Woman in Mind ( 1985 ).

NFL safety Ronnie Lott had the tip of his little finger removed after it was damaged in the 1985 NFL season.

In 1985, Lancaster, a longtime supporter of gay rights, joined the fight against AIDS after his close friend, Rock Hudson, contracted the disease.

STS-51-F's first launch attempt on 12 July 1985 was halted with the countdown at T-3 seconds after main engine ignition, when a malfunction of the number two Space Shuttle Main Engine ( SSME ) coolant valve caused the shutdown of all three main engines.

Challenger launched successfully on its second attempt at 29 July 1985, 17: 00 EDT, after a delay of one hour and 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink.

in 1983, and again in 1985, after completing The Seven Cities of Gold at Electronic Arts.

But the club's finances were still far from secure, and they were forced to leave the Valley just after the start of the 1985 – 86 season after its safety was criticised by Football League officials.

The Addicks nickname never went away and was revived by fans after the club lost its Valley home in 1985 and went into exile at Crystal Palace.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

The question of who would take over the Rovers Return after Annie Walker's 1983 exit was answered in 1985 when Bet Lynch ( who also mirrored the vulnerability and strength of Elsie Tanner ) was installed as landlady.

** Commodore Amiga, a family of personal computers introduced to the market in 1985 after Commodore International purchased the original developers, Amiga Corporation

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.

Later Park was asked to coach the Wings, but was sacked after 45 games in 1985 – 86.

Only after the ascendancy of Mikhail Gorbachev to Soviet leadership in 1985 did mass media in Finland gradually begin to criticize the Soviet Union more.

So they have deliberately gone after the same inept feeling in Godzilla 1985.

On May 30, 1985, after nine months of debate, the Constituent Assembly finished drafting a new constitution, which took effect immediately.

The metric definition of exactly cubic decimetres ( also after the litre was redefined in 1964, ≈ ) was adopted shortly afterwards in Canada, but from 1976 the conventional value of was used in the United Kingdom until the Canadian convention was adopted in 1985.

* 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.

* United States presidential inauguration, held every four years since 1937 ( with 2 exceptions by Eisenhower & Reagan, on January 21st because January 20 was a Sunday and 1985 ) in odd-numbered years after years when the United States Presidential Election takes place ( as the election takes place in years divisible by four – 2004, 2008, 2012, and so on – the inauguration takes place in 2005, 2009, 2013, etc .).

Lennon's first-ever tour in the spring of 1985 was documented as part of the film Stand By Me: A Portrait Of Julian Lennon — a film profile started by Sam Peckinpah, but completed by Martin Lewis after Peckinpah's death.

Janusz Andrzej Zajdel ( 15 August 1938 in Warsaw – 19 July 1985 in Warsaw ) was a prominent Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem.

Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, two FA Cups and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning from Liverpool in 1991.

Their influence increased after a coup attempt in May 1985, that was blocked mainly thanks to the action of the Revolutionary Guard that engaged regular army units in a series of street battles.

* 1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

* This is My Night ( Music Video ) ( 1985 ) – Mimi in Chaka Khan's music video

Over the next 18 months, the Coleco company ramped down its video game division, ultimately withdrawing from the video game market by the end of the summer of 1985.

* Chimera ( video game ), a 1985 isometric maze arcade adventure

* 1985 – Philip DeFranco, American video blogger, YouTube celebrity

Over time, Godzilla 1985, though not a hit, was partially profitable for New World only with the addition of home video and television syndication ( the film debuted on television on May 16, 1986 ).

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.

* Gauntlet ( arcade game ), a video game originally produced in 1985 by Atari Games

** Gauntlet ( NES video game ), the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System game based on the original 1985 Atari game

* Hex ( video game ), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST

* The Perfect Kiss ( 1985 )-Music video for New Order, Director.

His 1985 album, America, garnered praise for its title track's music video.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

SuperStation WTBS launched Night Tracks on June 3, 1983, with up to 14 hours of music video airplay each late night weekend by 1985.

Mecha have been featured in video games since the 1980s, particularly in vehicular combat and shooter games, including Sesame Japan's side-scrolling shooter game Vastar in 1983, various Gundam games such as the first-person shooters Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting in 1984 and Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble in 1986, the run and gun shooters Hover Attack in 1984 and Thexder in 1985, and Arsys Software's 3D role-playing shooters WiBArm in 1986 and Star Cruiser in 1988.

The 1984 film The Cotton Club was the first video to be encoded with Macrovision technology when it was released in 1985.

As she continued to promote " Just Say No ", she appeared in an episode of the popular 1980s sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes and in a 1985 rock music video, " Stop the Madness ".

His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

Space Battleship Yamato was a 1985 Japanese exclusive Laserdisc video game designed by Taito which was based on the television series of the same name.

The Bangles have contributed to several compilations, as well as to many other artists ' works: They provided the song " I Got Nothing " to the soundtrack album for the 1985 film The Goonies, and made a cameo appearance in Cyndi Lauper's music video for " Goonies ' R ' Good Enough ".

In 1985, Playhouse Video released a collection of video compilations under the Jim Henson's Muppet Video banner.