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FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005
Posted on 06/30/2005 7:03:48 PM PDT by MoJo2001
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~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1985 |
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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. |
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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? |
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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
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| 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. |
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| 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! |
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To: MoJo2001
"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"
Ummm, isn't that 1989?
I'm sure this has been discussed after 500 posts, but I'm not reading 500 posts.
481
posted on
07/01/2005 6:13:42 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: LUV W
482
posted on
07/01/2005 6:20:44 AM PDT
by
GodBlessUSA
(US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
To: MozartLover
What instrument do you play??
483
posted on
07/01/2005 6:24:18 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: El Gran Salseron
Yep - we have lots of hawks around the farm! :o)
484
posted on
07/01/2005 6:25:02 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
Prayers for our Troops!
485
posted on
07/01/2005 6:25:08 AM PDT
by
GodBlessUSA
(US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
To: HiJinx
LOL!!
Ok, ok! I give!!
He he he!
486
posted on
07/01/2005 6:26:08 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: El Gran Salseron; StarCMC
Good Morning! :)
I was thinking that was a possibly Hawk too. That is a large bird in that picture. :)
487
posted on
07/01/2005 6:27:21 AM PDT
by
GodBlessUSA
(US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
To: HiJinx
I'm biting - what's TOPS??
488
posted on
07/01/2005 6:31:49 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
YOU SAW SANATANA
AND LOS LONELY BOYS???**Swoon**
*thud*
489
posted on
07/01/2005 6:33:07 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
Yep, and somebody else paid for the ticket!
To: Radix
It's only about 40 years old! If it's not down by the time it's 60 I'm sure we'll knock it down just to be safe! :o)
491
posted on
07/01/2005 6:41:34 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: darkwing104; acad1228; tomkow6; SandRat
492
posted on
07/01/2005 6:43:08 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
493
posted on
07/01/2005 6:44:00 AM PDT
by
acad1228
("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: txradioguy
494
posted on
07/01/2005 6:44:05 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
Good Morning Star!
495
posted on
07/01/2005 6:45:51 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I love the Los Lonely Boys ~ they have such an ability to morph their sound. They can imitate Santana, Greg Allman...many different sounds.
496
posted on
07/01/2005 6:46:23 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: bannie
I don't think NKOB existed in '85 - I hardly knew them, didn't listen as much to pop after high school - which was at least '87 part way....
497
posted on
07/01/2005 6:46:59 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: GodBlessUSA
498
posted on
07/01/2005 6:47:09 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: tomkow6
499
posted on
07/01/2005 6:48:16 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: tomkow6
500
posted on
07/01/2005 6:48:17 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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