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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. 1985 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise from top-left: Royal Air Force C-130 airdropping food during the Ethiopian famine ; reductions of up to 70 percent in the ozone column observed in the austral (southern hemispheric ...
ComputerLand was a widespread chain of retail computer stores during the early years of the microcomputer revolution, and was one of the outlets (along with Computer City and Sears) chosen to introduce the IBM PC in 1981. The first ComputerLand opened in 1976, and the chain eventually included about 800 stores by 1985.
December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) ... 1985 – Karla Souza, Mexican actress [27] 1986 – Roy Hibbert, American basketball player;
On this day in 1985, the first Blockbuster video store rental opened in Dallas, Texas. Blockbuster was founded by David Cook, who at the time had owned a computer software business.
In late 1985, a nail-and-splinter-loaded bomb in the parking lot of a computer store in Sacramento, California, killed 38-year-old owner of the store, Hugh Scrutton. On February 20, 1987, a bomb disguised as a piece of lumber injured Gary Wright in the parking lot of a computer store in Salt Lake City , Utah; nerves in Wright's left arm were ...
It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December. 2000 : America Online merges with Time Warner. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time.
Pages in category "December 1985 events in the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ray Gricar was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in the city's Collinwood neighborhood. [3] He attended high school at the Gilmour Academy, a prestigious Catholic school in Gates Mills, and enrolled at the University of Dayton (UD), where he became interested in studying law after working as an intern for the prosecutor's office. [3]