About the day » Sunday February 24, 1985Calender converter

• Bram de Krosse, Twello († 2019)

• Anna Maria van Loon (77), Moerkapelle
• Antonius de Bont (87), Oudenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Beatrice Osa** BARNES (93), Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis
• Bastiaantje Klaasdr den Hartigh (83), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus van der Helm (76), Delft
• Albert Edward RAMSELL (87), Canton, Stark County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Andreas Josefus Maria Blomjous (81), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Donkers, Everhard (93), Nijmegen
• Alma Le Vault (88), Sesser, Franklin, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Christiaan Jeroen van der Weijden (91), Noordwijk

• 1981 » Felipe Baloy, Panamanian footballer
• 1981 » Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
• 1982 » Emanuel Villa, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 » Fala Chen, Chinese actress and singer
• 1982 » Klára Koukalová, Czech tennis player
• 1982 » Nick Blackburn, American baseball player
• 1984 » Corey Graves, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1985 » Nakash Aziz, Indian playback singer and music composer
• 1987 » Kim Kyu-jong, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
• 1988 » Mathieu Baudry, French footballer

• 1982 » Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1986 » Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian Bharatnatyam dancer (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1927)
• 1990 » Malcolm Forbes, American sergeant and publisher (b. 1917)
• 1990 » Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (b. 1945)
• 1991 » George Gobel, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1991 » John Daly, American journalist and game show host (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)

• 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.
• January 28 » Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
• October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
• December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
• December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

The temperature on February 24, 1985 was between -2.1 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.