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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 ...
March 1 – The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman is published for the first time. March 4 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States. March 6 – Boxer Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first-round ...
1985 in the United States by state or territory (56 C) 1985 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1985 disestablishments in the United States (44 C, 22 P)
The 1985 North America cold wave [1] was a meteorological event which occurred in January 1985 as a result of the shifting of the polar vortex farther south than is normally seen. [1] Blocked from its normal movement, polar air from the north pushed into nearly every section of the central and eastern half of the United States and Canada ...
The 1985 Election Day floods – also known as the Killer Floods of 1985 in West Virginia [1] – produced the costliest floods in both West Virginia and Virginia in November 1985. The event occurred after Hurricane Juan , a tropical cyclone in the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season , meandered near the coast of Louisiana before striking just west ...
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The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States in 1850. The National Program for Topographic Mapping was ...
Hurricane Elena was a strong, destructive and unpredictable tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the Gulf Coast of the United States in late August and early September 1985. Threatening popular tourist destinations during the Labor Day weekend, Elena repeatedly deviated from its forecast path, triggering evacuations of ...