6th » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice siege e.g Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
9th » Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
13th » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
15th » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
15th » The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough, County Down or Hillsborough Castle by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom e.g British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
19th » Cold War: In Geneva, President of the United States e.g U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev Geneva Summit (1985) known as meet for the first time.
19th » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the Pennzoil Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil, Co. called largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered
19th » Police in Baling, Malaysia, Memali Incident or lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
21st » United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for espionage known as spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
23rd » Gunmen Aircraft hijacking e.g hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
Famous Birthdays on November in 1985
3rd » Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player