About the day » Tuesday April 9, 1985Calender converter

• Michael Stroink, Lingen
• Jerney Rosanna Hoedemaker, Den Helder († 2007)

• Cornelis Sebastianus Martens (86), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Dee Forest Shumway (83), Solana Beach, S.D., Calif
• Dirk Schokker (55), Purmerend
• Alfons Anton Franciscus De Roey (64), Merksem
• Cornelis Sebastianus Martens (86), Rotterdam
• Aart Kampert (50), Sneek
• Cornelis Adriaan Bakker (64), Kortgene, Zeeland, Nederland
• Ela Elbertse (65), Well, Gelderland, Nederland
• Age Marinus Spanjer (64)
• Cornelis Pieter ROOIJ, de (77)

• 1983 » Ryan Clark, Australian actor
• 1984 » Óscar Razo, Mexican footballer
• 1984 » Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
• 1984 » Habiba Ghribi, Tunisian runner
• 1985 » Antonio Nocerino, Italian footballer
• 1985 » David Robertson, American baseball player
• 1986 » Leighton Meester, American actress
• 1986 » Mike Hart, American football player
• 1987 » Graham Gano, American football player
• 1987 » Kassim Abdallah, French-Comorian footballer

• 1976 » Dagmar Nordstrom, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1978 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed Portmeirion (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
• 1982 » Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 1988 » Dave Prater, American singer (b. 1937)
• 1988 » Hans Berndt, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Forrest Towns, American hurdler and coach (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1903)

• 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.
• March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
• July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
• September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
• October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

The temperature on April 9, 1985 was between 4.3 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.