Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. It was a disaster. Yet in 1985 the Coca-Cola Company decided to terminate its most popular soft…
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16 February 1985
Hezbollah is founded. The ideology of Hezbollah has been summarized as Shiite radicalism. Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s followers…
19 February 1985
EastEnders is broadcast for the first time on the BBC. On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the…
16 February 1985
Hezbollah is founded. The ideology of Hezbollah has been summarized as Shiite radicalism. Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s followers…
20 December 1985
Pope John Paul II announces support for World Youth Day. At the very beginning, during the Jubilee Year of Redemption, and then again for the…
20 November 1985
Microsoft releases Windows 1.0. On November 20, 1985, a small technology company out of Bellevue, Washington launched a 16-bit graphical operating system for the PC….
30 October 1985
The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off for on its final successful mission. Space Shuttle Challenger was the second orbiter of NASA’s space shuttle program to…
14 June 1985
TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah after take-off from Athens, Greece.