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 while stopping in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train.

* August 1 train derailment killed 100, many riding on roof.

* 23 August 2005-Singapore and Australia sign a memorandum of agreement to allow Singapore Armed Forces to train on the Shoalwater Bay Training Area till 2009.

At the beginning of August 2008, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his colleagues from Argentina and Brazil spoke about Latin American integration and Chavez threw an ambitious idea out: a train that would connect Venezuela's capital ( Caracas ) with Argentina's ( Buenos Aires ), and cities in between.

** Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £ 2. 6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

* August 10, 1903 — Paris Métro train fire.

* August 10 – Paris Metro train fire takes place.

* August 4 – A bomb explodes in an Italicus Express train between Italy and West Germany, killing 12 and wounding 48.

* August 30 – An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia ( now Croatia ), killing more than 150 passengers.

* August 11 – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain.

* August 20 – Abergele Train Disaster in Wales: An Irish Mail passenger train collides with 4 cargo trucks loaded with paraffin: 33 are killed ( the first major train disaster in Britain ).

* August 22 – Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee.

Nazi timetable for a " special resettlement train " ( Umsiedlersonderzug ) from Lukow to Siedlce to Treblinka, August 1942

The first train arrived in Irkutsk on August 16 of that year.

He secretly returned to France and attempted yet another coup in August 1840, sailing with fifty hired soldiers to Boulogne-sur-Mer, taking the train to Lille and repeating the failure of the Strasbourg coup.

Kaller could not appoint the four new canons for the chapter any more but was expelled the next day, transferred by lorry to Warsaw, accompanied by Borowiec, who also joined him on the train to Poznań on 18 August.

On August 5, 2010, the Ministry of Transport opened a website that contained information about public bus and train routes in the country.

The Trần Dynasty also adopted a unique way to train new kings: when a crown prince reached the age of 18, his predecessor would abdicate and turn the throne over to him, yet holding a title of August Higher Emperor ( Thái Thượng Hoàng ), acting as a mentor to the new Emperor.

In 1846, during the war between the United States and Mexico, a wagon train of German settlers bought Guadalupe land from August Schumann.

On 13 August 2010, a defective maintenance train caused disruption on the Charing Cross branch, after it travelled four miles in 13 minutes without a driver.

The first train reached Rockwell City on August 7, 1882 and the population count doubled in the same year.

In August 2008, the Marine Corps submitted a land withdrawal application to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) for approximately contiguous to base as part of an ongoing study by the Marine Corps for possible base expansion, along with the establishment of corresponding special-use airspace, necessary to train a Marine Expeditionary Brigade at the Combat Center.

A train of the Gilmore & Pittsburgh Railroad pauses at the railway's depot in Leodore, August 1912.

The first passenger train reached Dwight on 4 July 1854 and regular traffic on the railroad began in August of that year.