June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death August 24, 1985
The temperature on August 24, 1985 was between 12.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 21 » Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.
April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
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