* 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.

Published in Nature in 1985, the study found that predictions based on natal astrology were no better than chance, and that the testing " clearly refutes the astrological hypothesis ".

* 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord ( CSAL ) in Arkansas

* 1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.

A 1973 Yorkshire Television documentary and " A Kind of Alaska ", a 1985 play by Harold Pinter, were also based on Sacks ' book.

In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

These ex-Libyan Air Force MiG-21 ' Fishbed ' fighters were based in Ouagadougou, although they were actually operated by the Libyan Air Force on loan by Libya, and were removed in 1985 without seeing combat.

" Calvin and Hobbes was first published on November 18, 1985.

* " Burroughs B 5000 Conference, OH 98 ", Oral history on 6 September 1985, Marina del Ray, California.

They were married on Pearl Harbor Day, 1985.

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

In 1985, he was honoured with his image on a postage stamp of the United Kingdom, and in 1994 he appeared on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August.

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.

Challenger landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 6 August 1985, at 12: 45: 26 pm PDT.

The orbiter arrived back at Kennedy Space Center on 11 August 1985.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Until their win over Occidental on February 22, 2011 the team had not won a game in conference play since 1985.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in the Season 4 episode, " Second Time Around " ( 1985 ), but then she becomes a recurring character since Season 5 ( 1986 – 87 ), although she is a permanent character for Seasons 10 and 11 ( 1991 – 93 ).

In the 1985 cartoon Punky Brewster, the Bears are playing the Green Bay Packers in the episode " The Quartersize Quarterback ".

* Tales from the Darkside ( 1985 ) – Witch in episode: " Snip Snip "

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 ".

In 1985, the BBC's London based soap opera EastEnders debuted and was a near instant success with viewers and critics alike, with the first episode attracting over 17 million viewers.

* Vengeance on Varos ( 1985 ) was an episode of the TV show Doctor Who in which the population of a planet watches live TV broadcasts of the torture and executions of those who oppose the government.

Eastwood made his only foray into TV direction with the 1985 Amazing Stories episode " Vanessa In The Garden ", which starred Harvey Keitel and Sondra Locke.

Beginning on July 28 and continuing until August 29, 1986, a combination of 1985 College Week and summer 1984 regular episode reruns aired.

* Michael " Myke " Horton: Appeared on the February 6, 1985 episode and lost the game.

* 1985 episode of The Computer Chronicles featuring an extended interview with Tramiel

In 1985 he was the guest actor in the first episode of The Twilight Zone ( 1985 TV series ), " Shatterday ".

In 1985, McCammon's story " Nightcrawlers " was adapted into an episode of The New Twilight Zone.

* Following the last original episode on April 15, 1977, The Electric Company continued on PBS in reruns until fall 1985 ( giving the show about the amount of life expected at the time after production ended ) with the final two seasons ( 1A through 130B ) shown in rotation.

Although the new characters were not originally intended to be carried over to the television programme, Roy Clarke included them in four of the following six episodes of the 1985 series, beginning with the episode " Catching Digby's Donkey ".

The programme has since consistently been a favourite in the ratings, peaking at 18. 8 million viewers for an episode shown on 10 February 1985.

Her spelling was modified to " Rosie ", as featured in the 1985 episode " Rosie Come Home ".

The song was also featured in the opening scene of the 1985 Miami Vice episode Buddies.

A 1985 episode of the TV series " Miami Vice " centers around a malign Voodoo priest by the name of Papa Legba ( played by Clarence Williams III ).

However, she was credited as " Cheryl McFadden " in the Troma movie When Nature Calls ( 1985 ) and in the Season 3 episode of The Cosby Show, " Cliff's 50th Birthday ".

* 1985: Hill Street Blues-Larry Stein ( 1 episode, " The Life and Time of Domonic Floio Jr ")

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).