February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
Day of death May 9, 1985
The temperature on May 9, 1985 was between 7.5 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
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 11 » Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
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