February 1985

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February 5, 1985: Cristiano Ronaldo born
February 19, 1985: William J. Schroeder leaves hospital having successfully received the Jarvik 7 artificial heart

The following events occurred in February 1985:

February 1, 1985 (Monday)

  • Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashes shortly after takeoff on a domestic passenger flight from Minsk to Leningrad, as a result of engine failure caused by the icy conditions, killing 58 of those on board; 22 survive.[1]

February 2, 1985 (Tuesday)

February 3, 1985 (Wednesday)

February 4, 1985 (Thursday)

  • US TV channel NBC becomes the first commercial television network to use satellite interconnection for its stations, and the first to discontinue the use of chime intonations to mark the beginning of each broadcast.

February 5, 1985 (Friday)

February 6, 1985 (Saturday)

February 7, 1985 (Sunday)

February 8, 1985 (Monday)

February 9, 1985 (Tuesday)

February 10, 1985 (Wednesday)

February 11, 1985 (Thursday)

  • Despite a direction by the judge, Sir Anthony McCowan, "that the jury should convict him", British civil servant Clive Ponting is found not guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of an offence under the Official Secrets Act. Ponting had leaked information about the sinking of the Argentine navy warship General Belgrano, a key incident in the 1982 Falklands War.[16][17]
  • Died: Ben Abruzzo, 54, US balloonist, his wife and four other passengers, killed when the Cessna 421C Abruzzo is piloting hits treetops and crashes at Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a result of a baggage door opening in flight.[18]

February 12, 1985 (Friday)

February 13, 1985 (Saturday)

  • Sri Lankan rebel group, the Tamil Tigers, launch the "Kokkilai offensive", their first organised attack on the army.[20]

February 14, 1985 (Sunday)

February 15, 1985 (Monday)

February 16, 1985 (Tuesday)

February 17, 1985 (Wednesday)

February 18, 1985 (Thursday)

February 19, 1985 (Friday)

  • 54-year-old William J. Schroeder, one of the first recipients of an artificial heart, becomes the first to be discharged from hospital.[31]
  • Iberia Flight 610, a Boeing 727-256 named Alhambra de Granada, crashes as a result of striking a television antenna on the summit of Mount Oiz in Biscay, Spain; all 148 people on board are killed. It is the most serious accident in the airline's history.[32]
  • China Airlines Flight 006, a Boeing 747 with 284 people on board on a daily non-stop flight from Taipei to Los Angeles, suffers an aircraft upset at 40,000 feet. The pilot recovers control after a 30,000-foot (9,146 m) plunge over the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco. Twenty-four people are injured, two of them seriously.[33]
  • The first episode of BBC TV's long-running soap opera EastEnders is broadcast in the UK.[34]

February 20, 1985 (Saturday)

  • While visiting the United States, UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher addresses a Joint Meeting of Congress.[35]

February 21, 1985 (Sunday)

February 22, 1985 (Monday)

February 23, 1985 (Tuesday)

February 24, 1985 (Wednesday)

February 25, 1985 (Thursday)

February 26, 1985 (Friday)

February 27, 1985 (Saturday)

  • Died: David Huffman, 39, US actor, stabbed by a 16-year-old high school student, Genaro Samano Villanueva, who was attempting to evade arrest for an attempted burglary[47]

February 28, 1985 (Sunday)

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