what happened the year you were born

[Naked Freedom]

It was the International Youth Year
It was sadly one of the worst years for civil aviations.
January 15 - Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term in office (publicly sworn in, January 21).
February 19 - William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital.
February 20 - Minolta releases world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
March 4 - The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.
March 6 - Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first round knockout.
March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
March 21 - Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40,000 km, 26 month Man in Motion tour which raises $26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
March 25 - The 57th Academy Awards are held at in Los Angeles, CaliforniaAmadeus winning Best Picture.
March 31 - WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.
April 15 - South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.
May 25 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
June 17 - John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.
June 23 - Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
June 24 - STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
July 3 - Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.
July 4 - Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
September 19 - An 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico City. Around 10,000 people are killed, 30,000 injured, and 95,000 left homeless.
November 18 - The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in 35 newspapers.
Solarquest, the space age real estate game, is first published by Golden.
ATI Technologies is founded.
NeXT is founded by Steve Jobs after he resigns from Apple Computer.
The Tommy Hilfiger brand is established.
The computer game Tetris is released.
DNA is first used in a criminal case with .

Other famous people born that year:

January 7 - Lewis Hamilton, British Formula 1 Driver
February 5 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
February 9 - David Gallagher, American actor
February 11 - William Beckett, American singer and songwriter
February 28 - Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
February 28 - Diego Ribas da Cunha Brazilian soccer player
June 4 - Lukas Podolski, German soccer player
June 27 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
June 27 - Nico Rosberg, German Formula One driver
June 30 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer
July 10 - Mario Gomez, German footballer
July 25 - Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian Formula One driver
October 24 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
October 25 - Ciara, American singer
November 11 - Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer