February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
Day of death March 7, 1985
The temperature on March 7, 1985 was between 0.5 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
February 19 » Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
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.
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