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Born on Thursday October 17, 1985
Died on Thursday October 17, 1985

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from October 17, 1985 at Delpher


Born on October 17

Died on October 17

Names that were popular for boys in 1985
  1. Jan
  2. Mark
  3. Jeroen
  4. Michael
  5. Peter
  6. Thomas
  7. Pieter
  8. Johannes
  9. David
  10. Bart
  11. Dennis
  12. Sander
  13. Robert
  14. Kevin
  15. Paul
  16. Daniel
Names that were popular for girls in 1985
  1. Linda
  2. Maria
  3. Kim
  4. Laura
  5. Jessica
  6. Johanna
  7. Anna
  8. Stephanie
  9. Charlotte
  10. Esther
  11. Sarah
  12. Judith
  13. Amanda
  14. Anne
  15. Nicole
  16. Saskia

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1985
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • 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.
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
  • July 10 » An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
  • July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
  • October 4 » The Free Software Foundation is founded.
  • December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.
  • December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
Weather October 17, 1985

The temperature on October 17, 1985 was between 10.8 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.

Source: KNMI