What Happened In February 1985 In History

Historical Events for February, 1985

• 5th » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• 16th » Hezbollah is founded.
• 19th » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
• 19th » Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 Iberia Airlines Flight 610 e.g crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
• 28th » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a 1985 Newry mortar attack called mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1985

• 1st » Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
• 1st » Rachael Scdoris, American runner and dog musher
• 1st » Karine Sergerie, Canadian martial artist
• 1st » Dean Shiels, Irish footballer
• 2nd » Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
• 2nd » Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player
• 2nd » Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
• 3rd » Angela Fong, Canadian wrestler and actress
• 3rd » Andrei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player
• 4th » Bug Hall, American actor
• 5th » Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
• 5th » Paul Duffield, Australian footballer
• 5th » Constantinos Georgiades, Cypriot footballer
• 5th » Rudy Haddad, French-Tunisian footballer
• 5th » Crystal Hunt, American actress
• 5th » Julia Kova, Russian model and singer, Miss Universe or Miss Universe Russia 2003
• 5th » Robert Lijesen, Dutch swimmer
• 5th » Laurence Maroney, American football player
• 5th » Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
• 5th » Tatiana Silva, Belgian model, Miss Belgium called Miss Belgium 2005
• 5th » Paul Vandervort, American actor and model
• 6th » Kris Humphries, American basketball player
• 6th » Joji Kato, Japanese speed skater
• 6th » Yang Yu (swimmer) called Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
• 6th » Crystal Reed, American actress
• 7th » Tina Majorino, American actress
• 7th » Devis Nossa, Italian footballer
• 7th » Deborah Ann Woll, American actress
• 8th » Ben Anderson (basketball) named Ben Anderson, New Zealand basketball player
• 8th » Petra Cetkovská, Czech tennis player
• 8th » Jeremy Davis, American bass player and songwriter (Paramore)
• 8th » Thomas Gardner (basketball) known as Thomas Gardner, American basketball player
• 9th » David Gallagher, American actor
• 9th » Rachel Melvin, American actress
• 11th » Harris Allan, Canadian actor
• 11th » William Beckett (singer) called William Beckett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Academy Is...)
• 11th » Mike Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
• 12th » Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress
• 13th » Mayra Andrade, Cape Verdean singer
• 13th » Matthieu Franke, French-German rugby player
• 13th » Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
• 13th » Hedwiges Maduro, Dutch footballer
• 13th » Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
• 14th » Karima Adebibe, English actress and model
• 14th » Havana Brown (musician) called Havana Brown, Australian singer, DJ and dancer
• 14th » Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
• 14th » Heart Evangelista, Filipino singer and actress
• 14th » Natsume Sano, Japanese model
• 14th » Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
• 14th » Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress (Cookies (group) named Cookies)
• 15th » Serkan Kırıntılı, Turkish footballer
• 16th » Simon Francis (footballer) named Simon Francis, English footballer
• 16th » Ron Vlaar, Dutch footballer
• 17th » Sivakarthikeyan, Indian actor and singer
• 17th » Anne Curtis, Australian-Filipino actress and singer
• 17th » Anders Jacobsen (ski jumper) known as Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
• 18th » Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
• 18th » Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress
• 18th » Todd Lasance, Australian actor
• 18th » Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American murderer
• 19th » Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
• 19th » Arielle Kebbel, American actress
• 19th » Sławomir Peszko, Polish footballer
• 20th » Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
• 20th » Julia Volkova, Russian singer and actress (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi)
• 21st » Crimson (wrestler) e.g Crimson, American wrestler
• 21st » Jarrod Atkinson, Australian footballer
• 21st » Bob Burton, Jr., American Speedcubing called speedcuber
• 21st » Simon Cusden, English cricketer
• 21st » Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
• 21st » Jamaal Westerman, American football player
• 22nd » Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
• 22nd » Kein Einaste, Estonian skier
• 22nd » Sean Garballey, American politician
• 22nd » Georgios Printezis, Greek basketball player
• 22nd » Larissa Riquelme, Paraguayan model and actress
• 22nd » Zach Roerig, American actor
• 25th » Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player
• 25th » Joakim Noah, American basketball player
• 26th » Gee Atherton, English cyclist
• 26th » Miki Fujimoto, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Gomattō, and GAM (group) known as GAM)
• 26th » Ally Hilfiger, American model
• 26th » Fernando Llorente, Spanish footballer
• 26th » Carolin Nytra, German hurdler
• 26th » Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer
• 27th » Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
• 27th » Braydon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 27th » Vladislav Kulik, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
• 28th » Tim Bresnan, English cricketer
• 28th » Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 28th » Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
• 28th » Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer

Famous Deaths for February 1985

• 5th » Georges-Émile Lapalme, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 6th » James Hadley Chase, English-Swiss author (b. 1906)
• 7th » Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1930)
• 8th » William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Swallow Sidecar Company (b. 1901)
• 8th » Marvin Miller (actor) or Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
• 10th » Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 11th » Ben Abruzzo, American balloonist (b. 1930)
• 11th » Henry Hathaway, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 11th » Heinz Eric Roemheld, American composer (b. 1901)
• 11th » C. Suntharalingam, Sri Lankan academic, lawyer, and politician (b. 1895)
• 12th » Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (b. 1924)
• 21st » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 22nd » Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
• 22nd » Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
• 22nd » Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
• 26th » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize in Economics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 27th » Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
• 27th » Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
• 28th » David Byron, English singer-songwriter (Uriah Heep (band) or Uriah Heep and Spice (band) e.g Spice) (b. 1947)
• 28th » Alberts Ozoliņš, Latvian weightlifter (b. 1896)

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