A pedestrian bridge linking campus and the Marketplace is completed. The first Martin Luther King Symposium is held. 1985 U.S. warship is refused access to nuclear-free New Zealand. Mikhail Gorbachev takes over as leader of the Soviet Union. Coke changes its recipe.
Soccer hooliganism mars the world's most popular game.
Live Aid draws over a hundred thousand people on two continents in a rock festival for famine relief. The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk by French agents in a New Zealand port. Mexico City is hit by 7.8 quake. The wreck of the Titanic is found. The UCI Chief Executive Roundtable is established to encourage cooperation between business and education.