FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ 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!

 

 

[MozartLover]

Piano.:)

[Samwise]

Thank you!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

I don't envy you at this moment.;)

Well you might as well wait until tomorrow to clean what you haven't cleaned today.:)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I'll be back later today.
Have a commercial vessel fishing exam
in Port Orford this AM.

[StarCMC]

 

If Women Controlled The World:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And my personal favorite...

 

 

 

[acad1228]

Maureen Dowd is fat....and dresses funny,

Did someone metion Maureen Dowd..... We gots rules!!!!

[StarCMC]

I would LOVE it!!! You are welcome - and I'm NOT kidding!

[StarCMC]

Ah-ha!!


Darn - gotta go feed a little cutie pie!! BBL!! *HUGS!*

[GodBlessUSA]

LOL!!! EXcellent :)

[GodBlessUSA]

I wish I could wait. Maybe when hubby gets back he can take the kids and go out for a while.

Do you think you will see any fireworks?
HUGS!

[acad1228]

Did someone metion Maureen Dowd..... We gots rules!!!!

Maybe spell check should be one o' them rules?

[tomkow6]

My "kitty-katz" are already packing!......something about a huge convention they're planning......

[Professional Engineer]

1938! Geeeeez, I'm not that old! Is this some kind of trick to get me to say when I was really born?

Not to worry, we know you're really 27, and have the looks to prove it!

[GodBlessUSA]

You are super! I believe you do mean that! Maybe someday in the future, I will be there to visit you. Maybe Mrs. N will come with me! :)

[Army Air Corps]

In the Name of Love - not the same as the same title of the commie U2? No, the Thompson Twins song was not political. It was featured in Ghostbusters and is on the soundtrack.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Won't he be to tired from his trip?

If I stay up long enough,I can watch the neighborhood fireworks.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I am in!LOL.

I had to go back in the thread to see what I missed ,while reading on another thread.

[GodBlessUSA]

You mean there are other threads besides the Canteen. LOL! :)

[Army Air Corps]

"...probably half of sand-land would be glass and there wouldn't be as much of this don't-make-any1-mad crap!" He may not have nuked the place, but it would certainly be slated for massive "urban renewal." Also, he would have delivered some powerful speeches regarding Iran and its nuke programme; hell, he probably would have had their nuclear infrastructure leveled by now. I vivdly remember the day that the news folks announced the airstrike against Quaddafi; I felt like dancing in the streets. Reagan reminded me of Sean Connery's character in The Untouchables - "If they send one of yours to the hospital, you send theirs to the morgue!" Also, imagine dear ol' Maggie at the helm of the UK. I remember watching the Falklands Campaign on TV. The Iron Lady is still the toughest man in Europe and has more cajones than most of the "leaders" on the European continent.