February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death August 21, 1985
The temperature on August 21, 1985 was between 12.1 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
November 19 » Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
December 8 » The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia is established.
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