What happened onMay 13, 1985Monday Week 20

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The World in 1985 the year two concerts fed a famine

The Titanic was found about 12,500 feet down, more than two miles below the waves. Stack eight Empire State Buildings on the seafloor and the top one would still not reach the surface.

Life back then

Coca-Cola changed its recipe in the spring, and shoppers who hated the new taste called the company by the thousands until the old one came back. In Britain the miners went back to work in March after a year of picket lines and food parcels. In July, families in about 150 countries watched Live Aid on television for most of a day. Kids traded Garbage Pail Kids stickers and begged for the Nintendo machine that American shops were just starting to stock. In March the first .com name was registered, though hardly anyone owned a computer that could reach it.

The year in 8 events

• 🏛️Mar 11 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, far younger than the men before him.
• 🕯️May 29 Fans are crushed against a wall at Heysel Stadium in Brussels before the European Cup final. 39 people die.
• 🎬Jul 3 Back to the Future opens across America and becomes the biggest movie of the year.
• 🚢Jul 10 French agents sink the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, New Zealand. One crew member dies.
• 🎸Jul 13 The Live Aid concerts play in London and Philadelphia and raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 🔎Sep 1 A team led by American Robert Ballard finds the wreck of the Titanic, lost since 1912.
• 🕯️Sep 19 A strong earthquake hits Mexico City. Thousands of people die and buildings fall across the city.
• 🕯️Nov 13 A volcano erupts in Colombia and mud buries the town of Armero. About 23,000 people die.

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