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1985 As the spread of aids increases Governments
round the world start screening Blood donations for AIDS. On the technology
front the first .com is registered and the first version of Windows is
released Ver 1.0 . Terrorists continue to perform acts of terrorism including
the hijack of TWA Flight 847 and the Italian Cruise Liner "Achille
Lauro ". Famine in Ethiopia is shown more on TV News and Live Aid
concerts around the world raise many millions to help the starving in
Africa and the pop industry in US joins together to sing "We Are
The World".
Cost of Living 1985
How Much things cost in 1985
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 3.55%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1546
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.75%
Average Cost of new house $89,330.00
Average Income per year $22,100.00
Average Monthly Rent $375.00
Average Price for new car $9,005.00
1 gallon of gas $1.09
Movie Ticket $2.75
US Postage Stamp 22 cents
Bacon per pound $1.65
What Events Happened in 1985
- Volcanic
Eruption in Columbia kills 25,000
- TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
- The Italian Cruise Liner "Achille
Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian Terrorists
- Terrorist gunman shoot passengers at Rome
and Vienna airports .
- The British Coal Miners Strike ends
and coal mines continue to be closed
- Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin
Chernenko as Soviet leader
- President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev
meet for the first time in Switzerland
- The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior,
is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents.
- Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia
and London raise over 50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico
City. More than 9,000 people are killed,
- Rioting breaks out at housing estates in London
and Liverpool
- Terry Anderson kidnapped in Beirut,
Lebanon
- Boris Becker becomes youngest winner
at 17 to win the mens Wimbledon championships
- A joint American-French expedition locates
the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
- Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 electric
tricycle with a maximum speed of 15mph
- Mafia Boss Paul Castellano is shot on orders
of John J. Gotti
- Crowd Violence Erupts during the European
Cup Final at Heysel Stadium in Brussels causing a wall to collapse
killing 39 football fans.
- Following Heysel Stadium Disaster English
Soccer Clubs banned From European Competition
- A massive car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon
leaves 175 injured and 45 people dead
Popular Culture 1985
- Various artists, including Ray Charles, Bob
Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Lionel
Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce
Springsteen, Tina Turner and Stevie Wonder, record the song "We
Are The World" as USA for Africa. to raise money for famine relief
- Michael Jackson Buys ATV Music and every Beatles
Song for $47 million dollars
- Coca-Cola Company introduces New Coke
(6 months later they returned to the original formula)
Popular Films
- Back to the
Future
- Rambo: First Blood Part II
- Rocky IV
- The Color Purple
- Out of Africa
- Cocoon
- Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
- A View to a Kill
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Popular Musicians
- Duran Duran
- Simple Minds
- Madonna with
"Crazy for You"
- Bruce Springsteen
- Dire Straits
with "Money for Nothing"
- The Cure
- David Bowie
- Phil Collins
- "We Are
The World" By USA For Africa featuring many artists for Aid For
Africa
Technology 1985
- The Food and
Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS.
- The first .Com domain name, symbolics.com,
is registered by the Symbolics corporation. However, .edu domains, for
educational institutions, still predominate over the commercial .com
ones
- Microsoft Corporation releases the first version
of Windows, Windows 1.0.
- Switzerland is the first country to bring
into law catalytic converters must be fitted to private cars
- Compact Discs are introduced to American Consumers
- UK Starts screening Blood donations for AIDS
- British Scientists discover a whole
in the earths Ozone Layer
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