1985

USSR leader Chernenko dies - is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev
PLO terrorists hijack Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro
Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit and agree to step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts
Ronald Reagan sworn in as President twice - 1st time officially, 2nd time for television so as not to conflict with the Super Bowl
Restoration of the Statue of Liberty begins
Libby Riddles the 1st woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
Coca-Cola introduces the "New Coke"
Mel Fisher discovers the wreck of the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Señora de Atocha"
Wreck of the Titanic discovered
Garrison Kiellor's Lake Wobegon Days
Kurt Vonnegut's Galopagos
James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George
Studs Terkel's The Good War
Genetic fingerprinting
MS Windows
Live Aid concert for African famine relief
Songs - "We Are the World", "No Jacket Required", "Saving All My Love For You", "Like a Virgin", "Careless Whisper"
Films - "Out of Africa", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", "The Trip to Bountiful", "Prizzi's Honor"
TV - "The Golden Girls", "Moonlighting", "L.A. Law"
Marc Chagall, Rock Hudson, E.B. White, Orson Welles, Yul Brynner, and Rickie Nelson die