Events Date 1985 February | History by KabAstro

Boitano US Champion

Feb 2 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

"Harrigan 'n Hart"

Feb 3 Max Showalter and Peter Walker's musical "Harrigan 'n Hart", starring Harry Groening and Mark Hamill, closes at Longacre Theater, NYC, after 4 performances

Feb 4 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
Feb 4 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ if nuclear weapons aboard USS Buchanan
Feb 7 "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York City
Feb 7 Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5"

Event of Interest

Feb 7 Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo orders the kidnapping of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in Guadalajara, Mexico

Feb 7 NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
Feb 8 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
Feb 8 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
Feb 8 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)

Opposition Leader Returns

Feb 8 Opposition leader Kim Dae-jung returns to South Korea

8th President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung

Feb 9 DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena is tortured and murdered on orders of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

Like a Virgin

Feb 9 Madonna's album "Like a Virgin" goes #1 for 3 weeks

Feb 10 35th NBA All-Star Game, Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis: West beats East, 140-129; MVP: Ralph Sampson, Houston Rockets, C
Feb 10 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
Feb 10 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-E mission
Feb 10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Feb 11 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
Feb 11 King Hussein of Jordan & PLO leader Arafat sign accord

Cricket History

Feb 11 Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins

NHL All-Star Game

Feb 12 37th NHL All-Star Game, Olympic Saddledome, Calgary: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 6-4; MVP: Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, C

Feb 12 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup (Australian Tri-Series)
Feb 13 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
Feb 13 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders

Whitney Houston

Feb 14 "Whitney Houston" debut album by Whitney Houston is released (Grammy Award Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female 1986, Billboard Album of Year 1986)

Feb 14 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
Feb 15 35th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Woman and the Stranger" and "Wetherby" win the Golden Bear (tie)
Feb 15 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
Feb 15 Teen film "The Breakfast Club" is released, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy

Chess Controversy

Feb 15 World chess championship match abandoned with Anatoly Karpov 25 leading Garry Kasparov 23

Chess Grandmaster and Political Activist Garry Kasparov

Feb 16 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
Feb 16 Lebanese political and military organization Hezbollah founded

Sports History

Feb 16 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray Mancini to win WBA lightweight championship, in Buffalo, New York

Feb 16 NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
Feb 17 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
Feb 17 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England

Daytona 500

Feb 17 27th Daytona 500: After taking pole at then-record speed of 205.114 mph Bill Elliott dominates race leading 136 of 200 laps

Feb 17 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)

Event of Interest

Feb 17 Colombian drug lord the 'Godmother of Cocaine' Griselda Blanco arrested in Irvine, California - later convicted and serves 15 years for manufacturing and distributing cocaine [1]

Feb 17 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion

Sports History

Feb 17 Panamanian jockey Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000 winners; wins aboard Doria's Delight in the 5th race at Santa Anita Park

Feb 19 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashes approaching Bilbao, Spain
Feb 19 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
Feb 19 British soap opera "Eastenders" premieres on the BBC
Feb 19 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
Feb 19 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
Feb 19 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spends 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
Feb 20 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
Feb 21 Evert van Benthem wins his 13th Elfstedentocht, a long distance 11 city skating race
Feb 21 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)