 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1984 |
| | | Ronald Reagan is elected for a second presidential term, defeating the Democrat Walter Mondale | |
| |
|
| 1984 |
| | | Bob Geldof forms Band Aid and releases for Ethiopian famine relief the best-selling UK single Do they know its Christmas? | |
| |
|
| 1984 |
| | | Desmond Tutu, rector of an Anglican church in Soweto, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
| |
|
| 1984 |
| | | More than 2000 die in the Indian city of Bhopal when toxic gas escapes from a Union Carbide plant | |
| |
|
| 1985 |
| | | Civilian rule is restored in Brazil after Tancredo Neves and Jose Sarney are elected president and vice-president | |
| |
|
| 1985 |
| | | The miners' strike, ending after eleven bitter months, proves a turning point in the struggle between Margaret Thatcher and the unions | |
| |
|
| 1985 |
| | | New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev brings glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('reform') to the USSR | |
| |
|
| 1985 |
| | | With the return of democracy to Bolivia, the 77-year-old Paz Estenssoro is once again elected president | |
| |
|
| 1985 |
| | | Peter Carey publishes Illywhacker, a novel narrated by a 139-year-old Australian | |
| |
|
| 1985 |
| | | A dormant volcano erupts in Colombia, burying some 20,000 victims under a deep layer of silt | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |