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At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Fulvus (or, less frequently, year 838 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 85 for this year has been used since the early medieval period , when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. 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 ...
A&E, which previously shared Nickelodeon's channel, begins broadcasting as its own 24-hour cable channel in January of that year on a separate satellite transponder. July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theaters and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States, and the first film in the successful franchise ...
It took Texas to make America swallow the idea of lucky New Year’s black-eyed peas. More than 85 years ago, in 1937, an East Texas promoter put the first national marketing campaign behind what ...
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Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most eye-catching stories from the past week. → 2-foot-long creature — with yellow eyes — found on tree in China
85 years, 48 days 24 December 1989 (Oliver Glenn) Alabama, United States Recognized as the "Longest-married American couple" in 1989 [citation needed] Tadanosuke Hashimoto Hanae Hashimoto 1911 c. 85 years: c. 1996/7 (Hanae) Hyogo, Japan [64] [65] Mario Calì Antonina Ardilio 19 November 1931 84 years, 328 days 12 October 2016 (Mario) Sicily, Italy
The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) or Great Oxygenation Event, also called the Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Revolution, Oxygen Crisis or Oxygen Holocaust, [2] was a time interval during the Earth's Paleoproterozoic era when the Earth's atmosphere and shallow seas first experienced a rise in the concentration of free oxygen. [3]