FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1985

Welcome to Flashback Friday!
Each Friday we will take a journey back in time.
We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.
This week we're jumping back to 1985.

1985 Questions!
We Want To Know

1. Were you in school?
2. Were you in the military?
3. What kind of music were you listening to?
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1985?

Events that occurred in 1985

- Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief.

- January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.

-February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia.

-March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

-March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.

June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil.

June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.

July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents

September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

October 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinians.

December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.

December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union

December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union

December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist

Entertainment/Sports

Super Bowl XIX: San Francisco 49ers won 38-16 over the Miami Dolphins

April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship.

World Series: The Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3, becoming the first team to come back from a 3 to 1 deficit to win a series in baseball

February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air.

June - Alexey Pajitnov develops Tetris at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer.

November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows.

The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S.

Hit Music From 1985

Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls*

USA For Africa - We Are The World

Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover

New Edition - Cool It Now

Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love

Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok

Sade - Smooth Operator

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Madonna - Dress You Up

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

The Time - Jungle Love*

* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma!

"My favorite band in 1985 was Men At Work."

Okay, which song was your favourite?

101 posted on 06/30/2005 8:06:00 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

Encourage their hearts and surround them with peace.

Indeed Sa...lovely.

102 posted on 06/30/2005 8:09:07 PM PDT by AZamericonnie (I AM an AMERICAN not because I live in America but because America lives in me!~Ray Cornelius~)

Hi, Mayor! Thanks for reminding us that we should have more joy than anyone if we know the Lord!

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, against such things there is no law...Gal.5:22-23

Have ya cooled off from all your hard work? What plans are in store for the holiday weekend?

103 posted on 06/30/2005 8:09:34 PM PDT by luvie (GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE USA! GOTTA LOVE W!)

LOL...What a memory. You're blessed, sometimes I can't remember where, or what I did yesterday, let alone in 1985!

104 posted on 06/30/2005 8:09:43 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)

I'm hoping that we stay cool like this for a long time. We had a hot summer last year. I know we will get it soon enough. I really hope it gets cooler for you.

We do the entire meal. It is an expense. We figure they pay to travel. I could ask them but we don't. This year they can bring their own beer/wine. I'm only getting soda. It's to expensive and I don't drink, except for maybe a glass of wine or a beer. I'm not wasting my money on it this year. LOL! They won't mind, I'm sure. My Mother and Father have everyone Sat. I do Sunday.

Bible Class sounds terrific. I'm glad you enjoyed tonight!

105 posted on 06/30/2005 8:10:07 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

SOMEONE is sidetracking me on the phone!! He he he!!

106 posted on 06/30/2005 8:10:31 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

I knew I had socks older than you.

107 posted on 06/30/2005 8:12:27 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)

To: Army Air Corps

EWWWWWW!!! Geraldine spoke at my high school. EWWWWWWWW!

Star needs to go wash out her brain from that memory.

108 posted on 06/30/2005 8:13:11 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

To: Senator Pardek; StarCMC; SevenofNine

You meant this Rush....?

Rush~The Trees

109 posted on 06/30/2005 8:13:45 PM PDT by AZamericonnie (I AM an AMERICAN not because I live in America but because America lives in me!~Ray Cornelius~)

Wow! You are a young Diva :)
LUCKY! LOL!

110 posted on 06/30/2005 8:14:42 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

111 posted on 06/30/2005 8:14:56 PM PDT by trussell (Prayers for the children!)

To: Senator Pardek

OHHHHHHHH!! Now you see how nerdy *I* have become!!

Rush 2112 - great album!

112 posted on 06/30/2005 8:15:08 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

Reagan open up my eyes to Republican party can you imagine me nice little Generxer with pink hair being Republican LOLOLOL!

That drive my lib parents NUTS least they are tolerate me but my Lib relatives up in Bay area OH BOY our holiday dinners were something else LOL!

113 posted on 06/30/2005 8:15:36 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)

Hey LUV! The story about the first soldiers to receive the new Combat Action Badge was a great story. God Bless all our Troops!

Oops, I promised pictures, LOL! Coming up shortly!

114 posted on 06/30/2005 8:16:01 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe

Now who's calling you this late at night. :)

Hubby back from St. Louis tomorrow! He said it's really really hot there. :)

115 posted on 06/30/2005 8:16:15 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

Good Evening Trussell!
How are you? Happy 4th of July to you!

116 posted on 06/30/2005 8:18:09 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

Geraldine spoke at your high school? Egad, I really feel sorry for you and your classmates. Did they giver her a Twinkie for the gig? I laugh when I see her as a commentator on FNC; she remains a clueless moonbat.

117 posted on 06/30/2005 8:18:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

To: AZamericonnie

WOW!!! That's the exact song I thought of when I thought of the band!! LOL!!

Second favorite song is "Free Will."

118 posted on 06/30/2005 8:18:13 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

To: ButThreeLeftsDo

119 posted on 06/30/2005 8:19:38 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)

To: AZamericonnie

Good Evening AZ--Thank you.

120 posted on 06/30/2005 8:20:05 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)

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