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45/85 is an ABC News television documentary. It aired on September 18, 1985. The three-hour program combined archive film and television footage with new interviews to document post-World War II history, focusing especially on the Cold War. [1]
VH1 begins in the United States. January 4 Sesame Street broadcasts its 2,000th episode. January 7 During an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America, actor Yul Brynner, who was suffering from terminal lung cancer, mentioned his wish to make a public service announcement to be run after his death to tell others to not smoke. January 20
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. July 13 Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London raise over £50,000,000 for famine relief in Ethiopia .
The series focuses on the origins and evolution of Western civilization, and the transformative challenges and influence it has exerted on the rest of the world. [2] The thirteen one-hour episodes examined the socio-economic , political , and cultural movements that helped shape world history.
Subtitles allow viewers to understand dialogue that is poorly enunciated, delivered quietly, in unfamiliar dialects, or spoken by background characters. A 2021 UK survey found that 80% of viewers between 18 and 25 regularly used subtitles, while less than a quarter of those between 56 and 75 did. [13] [14] [15]
A private swearing-in ceremony took place on Sunday, January 20, 1985, at the White House, [1] [2] followed by a public inauguration ceremony on Monday, January 21, 1985, at the Capitol's rotunda. At 73 years, 349 days of age on Inauguration Day, Reagan was the oldest U.S. president to be inaugurated until Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021, at ...
May 8, 1985 () 2: 24: September 18, 1985 May 7 ... 18 "We Have Forever: Part 2" Michael Landon: ... a farmer and the President of the United States.
Assignment Vienna told the story of Jake Webster (Robert Conrad), an American expatriate in Vienna who was the operator of Jake's Bar & Grill, an American-style establishment near the scenic heart of the city. In fact, the business was a cover for Jake's actual reason for being in Vienna.