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| 1985 |
| | | Seven groups of Afghan mujaheddin form a united front against the Soviet army | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Antiguan author Jamaica Kincaid publishes her first novel, Annie John | |
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| 1985 |
| | | French racing driver Alain Prost wins the first of his four Formula One titles | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Ayers Rock is returned to the Mutitjulu people and given its Aboriginal name, Uluru | |
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| 1985 |
| | | The Human Genome Project begins in the US Department of Energy, with the aim of sequencing the whole of human DNA | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Julius Nyerere, long-serving president of Tanzania, relinquishes power voluntarily | |
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| 1985 |
| | | 22-year-old Gary Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov and becomes the youngest-ever world champion in chess | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Britain's Margaret Thatcher and Ireland's Garret FitzGerald sign an Anglo-Irish Agreement to tackle shared problems | |
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| 1985 |
| | | British Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair | |
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| 1986 |
| | | The US Space shuttle Challenger explodes with seven on board less than two minutes after lift-off | |
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