Thursday Thirteen: 13 things that happend in 1985


Thursday Thirteen: 13 Things that happened in 1985, the year I was born

  1. March 20th – I was born :-)
  2. January 1st – first British cell phone call
  3. March 4th – The FDA approves a blood screening test for AIDS
  4. March 11th – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
  5. April 23rd – Coke changes its formula and releases New Coke. It is a failure and the original coke is released again.
  6. June 23rd – Air India Flight 182 blows up south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
  7. June 37th – Route 66 is decommissioned
  8. July 24th – Commodore launches the Amiga
  9. August 6th – the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima
  10. September 1st – Titanic wreck located
  11. October 18th – the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is released in the US
  12. November 20th – Windows 1.0 is released
  13. December 1st – Ford Taurus is released
May 2, 2007 – 5:10 pm | By Ankur Mathur | Posted in blog, Thursday 13 | Tagged | Comments (0)

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