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| 1985 |
| | | President Reagan's administration breaks a US embargo with secret arms sales to Iran in return for assistance in the release of US hostages in Lebanon | |
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| 1985 |
| | | US author Don DeLillo publishes a novel of weird disasters, White Noise | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Oliver North arranges for clandestine money from Iran to provide illegal support for the Nicaraguan Contras | |
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| 1985 |
| | | 17-year-old German tennis-player Boris Becker becomes the youngest ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Gabriel García Márquez publishes Love in a Time of Cholera, a novel about love rekindled after five decades | |
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| 1985 |
| | | French agents blow up Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Live Aid, an all-day concert for famine relief in Africa, is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia | |
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| 1985 |
| | | US artist Christo tightly binds Paris's Pont Neuf in fabric, as one of his international series of wrapped iconic buildings | |
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| 1985 |
| | | The first Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast in the USA, beginning a very long open-ended series | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Milton Obote, toppled in a bloodless Uganda coup, escapes to Zambia | |
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