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1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota
1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota: Mondale-Ferraro (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) carried Mondale's home state by 3,761 votes (49.72% to 49.54%) over Reagan-Bush, the only state Reagan lost while winning 525 electoral votes.
1984 Winter Olympics
1984 Winter Olympics (XIV Olympic Winter Games, Sarajevo 1984): held 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; first Winter Games in a communist country, 1,272 athletes from 49 countries, 39 events, no boycott, Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first winter medal.
1984 Winter Paralympics
1984 Winter Paralympics (III World Winter Games for the Physically Disabled), held in Innsbruck, Austria, 15–21 January 1984; 419 athletes from 21 countries, 107 events in three sports, Austria led the medal table.
1984 World Series
The 1984 World Series: Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres 4-1 for Detroit's fourth title; 104-win wire-to-wire Tigers, Alan Trammell MVP, Kirk Gibson's Game 5 homer off Goose Gossage.
1984–1985 Kenyan drought
The 1984–1985 Kenyan drought was a countrywide rainfall failure that cut the 1984 cereal harvest by roughly 30 percent, forcing large grain imports to prevent famine.
1984–1985 Southern African drought
The 1984–1985 Southern African drought was the third consecutive failed rainy season across most of the subcontinent, leaving millions dependent on imported cereals and food aid before rains returned in 1985.
1984–85 United States network television schedule
1984–85 United States network television schedule: ABC, CBS, and NBC primetime lineups, September 1984 to August 1985. CBS won its sixth straight Nielsen season; NBC launched its Cosby Show Thursday block.
1985
1985, the year Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader launching glasnost and perestroika; marked by the Nevado del Ruiz/Armero disaster, Live Aid, TWA 847 and Achille Lauro hijackings, the Rainbow Warrior sinking, and dense World War II anniversaries.
1985 Arab Cup
1985 Arab Cup, fourth edition of the Arab Cup, held in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia, July 3-12, 1985. Iraq won its fourth title, beating Bahrain 1-0 in the final; first edition since 1966.
1985 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1985 Atlantic hurricane season was an above-average year with 11 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and repeated US landfalls including Hurricane Kate's record late November landfall in Florida.
1985 Chicago Bears season
1985 Chicago Bears season: NFL season in which the Bears went 15-1, started 12-0, lost only at Miami, shut out Giants and Rams in the playoffs, and won Super Bowl XX 46-10 over New England.
1985 Chile earthquake
The 1985 Chile earthquake was a magnitude 8.0 megathrust earthquake that struck off central Chile on March 3, 1985, killing 177 people and damaging Valparaíso, Santiago, and surrounding regions.
1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz
The 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz was a small explosive eruption of the Colombian volcano on 13 November 1985, whose lahars destroyed Armero and killed more than 23,000 people.
1985 Formula One World Championship
1985 Formula One World Championship: 16 Grands Prix, 7 April to 3 November. Alain Prost won his first drivers' title with 73 points in the McLaren-TAG MP4/2B, becoming the first French champion; McLaren took the constructors' crown with 90 points.
1985 Gaborone raid
The 1985 Gaborone raid, codenamed Operation Plecksy, was a predawn South African Defence Force cross-border attack on Gaborone, Botswana, on 14 June 1985 that killed twelve people.
1985 in film
1985 in film: the cinema year when Back to the Future topped the US box office, the first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Young Sherlock Holmes introduced the first fully CG film character, and Kusturica won the Cannes Palme d'Or.
1985 Manchester Airport disaster
1985 Manchester Airport disaster: British Airtours Flight 28M (Flight 328), Boeing 737-236 G-BGJL to Corfu, uncontained left-engine failure and fuel fire on takeoff at Manchester, killing 55 of 137 aboard.
1985 Mexico City earthquake
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, also called the Great Mexican Earthquake, was a magnitude 8.1 quake off Michoacán on 19 September 1985 that devastated Mexico City, killing thousands.
1985 MOVE bombing
The 1985 MOVE bombing: Philadelphia police dropped a C-4/Tovex satchel bomb from a helicopter on MOVE's Osage Avenue row house on May 13, 1985, killing 11, burning 61 homes; the 1986 MOVE Commission called it unconscionable.
1985 NBA draft
The 1985 NBA draft, the first under the NBA draft lottery system, gave the New York Knicks the first pick, Patrick Ewing; it also produced Hall of Famers Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Joe Dumars, and Arvydas Sabonis.
1985 NBA Finals
1985 NBA Finals: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics 4-2 (May 27–June 9, 1985), their first Finals win over Boston after eight losses; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 38, was oldest Finals MVP; Game 1 was the 148-114 Memorial Day Massacre.
1985 Niles–Wheatland tornado
The 1985 Niles–Wheatland tornado was a violent F5 tornado that struck northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania on May 31, 1985, killing 18 people and injuring 310.
1985 Tour de France
1985 Tour de France (72nd edition), won 21 July 1985 by Bernard Hinault, his fifth victory equaling Anquetil and Merckx, with teammate Greg LeMond second; still the last French win.
1985 Ugandan coup d'état
The 1985 Ugandan coup d'état was the military overthrow of President Milton Obote on 27 July 1985 by army officers led by Tito Okello, Obote's second ouster.
1985 World Series
The 1985 World Series, the I-70 or Show-Me Series, was won 4-3 by the Kansas City Royals over the St. Louis Cardinals; Bret Saberhagen was MVP after the Denkinger Game 6 call and an 11-0 Game 7.
1985–86 European Cup
1985-86 European Cup (European Champion Clubs' Cup), won by Steaua București, who beat Barcelona 2-0 on penalties after a 0-0 final in Seville on 7 May 1986; Duckadam saved all four Barcelona penalties.
1985–86 United States network television schedule
The 1985–86 United States network television schedule covered the three commercial networks' prime time hours, with The Cosby Show the top-rated program and NBC winning the season.
1986
1986, a common year starting Wednesday, saw the Challenger disaster, Chernobyl, the Reykjavik summit, Marcos's fall, the Iran-Contra scandal, and Voyager's first nonstop global flight.
1986 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1986 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-average season with six named storms, four hurricanes, and no majors; Hurricane Earl was strongest, and Charley killed five people.
1986 California Proposition 65
California Proposition 65 (Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986), passed 63-37 percent, bans toxic discharges into drinking water, requires exposure warnings, and maintains an OEHHA chemical list.