April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
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.
January 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
January 21 » Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
October 6 » Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
November 15 » The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
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