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March 11, 1985Died on Tuesday March 12, 1985
- Aaltje Bakker (89)
- Alfons Van den Broeck (77), Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Adriana Christina Maria Trijzelaar (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Anna Cornelia Witte (88)
- Anna Regina Jorna (76)
- Adriana Johanna de Haas (82), Noordwijk
- Albert Willem Weijenberg (91)
- Albert Alvin Hodges (60), Hope, Arkansas
- Agatha Maria ZWARTHOED (53)
- Aaltje Ott (74)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 12, 1985 at Delpher
Born on March 12
- 1984 » Jaimie Alexander, American actress
- 1984 » Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
- 1985 » Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
- 1985 » Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer
- 1985 » Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
- 1985 » Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
- 1986 » Ben Offereins, Australian runner
- 1986 » Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1986 » Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1986 » Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer
Died on March 12
- 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
- 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
- 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
- 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
- 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
- 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
- 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
- 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
- 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
Names that were popular for boys in 1985
- Johannes
- Jan
- Michael
- Pieter
- Cornelis
- Peter
- John
- David
- Willem
- Thomas
- Robert
- Hendrik
- Mark
- Jeroen
- Maria
- Paul
Names that were popular for girls in 1985
- Maria
- Johanna
- Marie
- Anna
- Elisabeth
- Elizabeth
- Linda
- Ann
- Anne
- Catharina
- Kim
- Laura
- Cornelia
- Nicole
- Jessica
- Wilhelmina
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.
- January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
- October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- November 9 » Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
- November 19 » Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
- December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
The weather on Tuesday March 12, 1985
The temperature on March 12, 1985 was between -1.0 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI