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(thing) by Accipiter (2.8 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:23:30

Year of the first Time Travel experiment. (October 26, 1985 to be Exact.) 1:20 AM, in the dark parking lot of Twin (Lone) Pine(s) Mall, a combination Delorean/Time Machine successfully accelerated to 88 miles-per-hour, transporting a dog (Einstein) one minute into the future. 15 minutes later, Marty McFly is transported 30 years in the past to November 5th, 1955, causing considerable damage to Old Man Peabody's ranch.

(thing) by pingouin (4.3 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Feb 13 2000 at 20:19:56

A novel by Anthony Burgess. Part One is actually an "interview", a meditation on George Orwell's 1984, while Part Two, the novel proper, presents a different sort of dystopia (or "cacotopia"), with England remade by permissiveness, punk, and Petrodollars, and a welfare state gone wrong. Just as Orwell's creation was meant to be about "the future" of 1948, Burgess drew a bleak caricature of his pre-Thatcher Britain.

(idea) by Jizz (1.4 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Wed Jul 03 2002 at 2:47:42

1985


Major News

  • New Coke is released
  • Dr. Robert Ballard finds the wreck of the Titanic
  • Famine in Ethiopia
  • Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered
  • Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika
  • Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Elie Wiesel.
  • Two Shi'te Muslims hijack a TWA airliner with 133 on board (June 14). On June 30, 39 remaining hostages are released in Berut, Lebanon.
  • Terrorists hijack a Egyptian Boeing 737 after takeoff in Athens and 59 are killed when Egyptian troops retake the plane the next day on November 24.


Science

Nobel Prizes in the Sciences

    Chemistry: Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle (Development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures)
    Physics: Klaus von Klitzing (Developing an exact way of measuring electrical conductivity)
    Medicine: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein (Research on cholesterol metabolism and increased our possibilities to prevent and treat atherosclerosis and heart attacks


Sports

    Super Bowl: San Francisco d. Miami (38-16)
    World Series: Kansas City d. St. Louis Cardinals (4-3)
    NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers d. Boston (4-2)
    Stanley Cup: Edmonton d. Philadelphia (4-1)
    Wimbledon:
      Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (4-6 6-3 6-2)
      Men: Boris Becker d. K. Curren (6-3 6-7 7-6 6-4)
    Kentucky Derby Champion: Spend A Buck
    NCAA Basketball Championship: Villanova d. Georgetown (66-64)
    NCAA Football Champions: Oklahoma (11-1-0)


Entertainment

The 5 Highest Grossing Films


The Academy Awards



<-- 1984 | 1986 -->


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1986 1984 D.A.R.Y.L. DeLorean
Out of Africa Time travel Real Genius UK Number One singles of 1985
Back to the Future Playmates of the Month 1895 Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika Glasnost New Coke Teen Wolf
1980 1996 Anthony Burgess Revolution Summer
the Holy Trinity 1999 Rum, Sodomy and the Lash 1987
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