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

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.

* Confessions of a Contra: How the CIA Masterminds the Nicaraguan Insurgency by The New Republic, 5 August 1985

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

This early post, on August 7, 1985, describes the awards as being, " given posthumously to people who have made the supreme sacrifice to keep their genes out of our pool.

Opening on August 23, 1985, in 235 North American theaters, the film grossed $ 509, 502 USD ($ 2, 168 per screen ) in its opening weekend, on its way to a lackluster $ 4, 116, 395 total gross.

Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.

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.

The V705 was completed in August 1985 and taken to the US where it rolled on the roads around Santa Barbara and got positive reactions.

A bloodless coup in August 1985 had brought Major General Ibrahim Babangida to power in Nigeria, and Rawlings took advantage of the change of administration to pay an official visit.

The development of OS / 2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the " Joint Development Agreement " in August 1985.

National Geographic magazine introduced the American cultured pearl as a commercial product in their August 1985 issue.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

Ruth Gordon Jones ( October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985 ), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer.

In August 1985 the APC named military commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Saidu Momoh, Stevens ' own choice, as the party candidate to succeed Stevens.

SGI rapidly evolved its machines into workstations with its second product line — the IRIS 2000 series, first released in August, 1985.

Additional massacres by the Shining Path occurred, such as the one in Marcas on August 29, 1985.

* August 28 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

Part 1, BYTE, August 1985, pp 120 – 136 ; Part 2, BYTE, September 1985, p 116.

* The 5ESS Switching System ( The AT & T Technical Journal, July – August 1985, Vol.

In August 1985, the service went off the air for the first time when workers striked in protest at the British government's decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin.

Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL ( 9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 ) was an English poet and novelist.

In August 1972 Camel signed with MCA Records and their eponymous debut album was released six months later.

In late 2001 the band took the rights to The Post Wave back from MCA records and reissued it on Thick Records in August 2001.

In August 1983, Irving Azoff signed Barry to the MCA Records for North America, Gibb was signed for a few million dollars to a multi-album deal, but in the end the MCA released only one album called Now Voyager, released in 1984 ( His third solo album Moonlight Madness was rejected by MCA ) The first single released on the album " Shine, Shine " it reached No. 34 in the US and reached No. 10 in the US Adult Contemporary Charts, the second single " Fine Line " did not chart in US or UK.

However, Womack parted ways with MCA Nashville in August 2012, leaving the future of the album unknown.

He was sacked by MCA in August 2009 for damaging the party's image with his sex scandal more than a year prior.

The show ran until August 14, 1982, producing 29 episodes for NBC and Universal MCA, which were rerun in 2000 by TV Land.

Originally it was distributed through Universal Music Group, the main shareholder of Vivendi Universal SA that embraced MCA record label the one to release Doggy Style Records as its sub-agency with Snoop being the executive in August 2001.

On 23 August 2012, Australian youth radio station, Triple J, uploaded video footage of the Hilltop Hoods performing a tribute to the Beastie Boys and the trio's recently-deceased member, Adam " MCA " Yauch.

MCA and James parted company in August 1993.

Interestingly, few if at all were any mentions made of the involvement of the Malayan Chinese Association ( MCA ) and the Malayan Indian Congress ( MIC ), which 3 parties worked together to achieve Independence of Malaya on August 31st, 1957.

After negotiations, which involved relieving them of their old MCA contract, the group was signed to Disturbing tha Peace in August 2005, shortly thereafter appearing on Ludacris Presents: Disturbing tha Peace, a collaboration album showcasing the label's new artists.

A soundtrack containing mostly R & B and reggae music was released on August 11, 1998 by MCA Records.

The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming.

The album was released on August 31, 2012 thru Napalm Records in Europe and September 11, 2012 in the United States and Canada.

In 1993, Garth Brooks, who had criticized music stores which sold used CDs since it led to a loss in royalty payments, persuaded Capitol Records not to ship his August 1993 album In Pieces to stores which engaged in this practice.

As of August 31, 2011, Rush switched their American distribution from Atlantic Records over to the Warner Brothers majority-owned metal label, Roadrunner Records.

Virgin Records was scheduled to release a box-set entitled Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 on 6 August, celebrating 40 years since the release of the band's debut album in 1972.

* Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era, 1976-1995 Rhino Records ( 30 August 2005 )

* August 27 – First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.

Warner Bros. Records had serious doubts about releasing an album of this eclecticism to the mainstream, but when it did in August 1986, Graceland was praised by critics and the public and became Simon's most successful solo album.

The band recorded five songs ; one of the tracks from the session, " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", running more than nine minutes, was released as the group's debut single in August 1979 on Small Wonder Records as Bauhaus ( the 1919 abandoned ).

Risk is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth released on August 31, 1999, and is the band's final studio album released by Capitol Records.

Cake later formed their own label, Upbeat Records, which allowed them to release the compilation album B-Sides and Rarities on August 14, 2007.

On August 2, 2002, the original motion picture soundtrack was released by the Hollywood Records label and the film score was composed by musician James Newton Howard.

Within a year of that first gig, the band was signed to Metal Blade Records, apparently after the label had heard their demo that was sent in by the manager of the record store at which Chris Barnes was working, and their full-length debut album, Eaten Back to Life, was released in August 1990.

On 14 August 1975 Hampstead entered the UK Weather Records with the Highest 155-min total rainfall at 169 mm.

The album Blue on Blue was released by Nettwerk Records under Nash's own imprint, One Son Records and the album's official release date was August 15, 2006, she also released a Christmas EP Wishing For This on 14 November 2006.

In August 1995 ForeFront Records released One Way: Songs of Larry Norman, a tribute album that included covers of 14 Norman's classic songs by ForeFront artists, including dc Talk ; Audio Adrenaline, Grammatrain ; and Rebecca St. James, whose father, David Smallbone, booked and promoted Norman's first concerts and distributed Norman's early records in Australia, including his eponymous 1977 album, ( which is also known as Starstorm ).

On February 20, 1971, they auditioned to be the back-up band to singer / songwriter Phillip Goodhand-Tait and released an album with him in August 1971 titled " I Think I'll Write a Song " on DJM Records.

They recorded the band's first single, " Cough / Cool ", which they released through their own label Blank Records in August 1977.

Also in 2001 Caroline Records announced that they would release recordings from the Misfits ' August 1980 album sessions as 12 Hits from Hell.

* Jobriath Boone-( born Bruce Wayne Campbell December 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died August 3, 1983 ), A native of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, he was an American folk and glam rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, Elektra Records ..

The current watermelon seed-spitting distance record, as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, of 78 feet 6 inches, was set at the festival on August 12, 1995, by Jason Schaynot, then of Georgetown, Texas.

In August 1964, Checker Records released the album Two Great Guitars recorded by rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley which is one of rock music's first recorded guitar jam sessions.