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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 ...
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 ...
Adam John Walsh (November 14, 1974 [1] – c. July 27, 1981) was an American child who was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later in a drainage canal alongside Highway 60/Yeehaw Junction in rural Indian River County, Florida .
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.
This article originally appeared in the June 1985 issue of SPIN. ... lifted his pant leg and bailed out of the store. Kids hanging out wearing Iron Maiden T-shirts and playing video games; someday ...
The ad was made in the style of a 1985 mall advertisement, and includes an image of a "newly opened" Waldenbooks store among its offerings. In reality, the crew of Stranger Things did a cosmetic restoration of a portion of the Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia , returning authentic signage and storefronts to the mall to represent many ...
The FBI, Secret Service, Middlesex County NJ Prosecutor's Office and various local law enforcement agencies execute seven search warrants concurrently across New Jersey on July 12, 1985, seizing equipment from BBS operators and users alike for "complicity in computer theft", [23] under a newly passed, and yet untested criminal statute. [24]
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...