1985 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1985 in the United Kingdom.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

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January 1 - The first British mobile phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone).
January 10 - launch of Sinclair C5.
January 10 - gas explosion causeseight deaths in Putney.
January 17 - British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes.
January 23 - A debate in the House of Lords is televised for the first time.
January 29 - Margaret Thatcher became the first post-war Prime Minister to be refused an honorary degree by Oxford University.
March 3 - a year long miners' strike comes to an end
March 11 - Mohammed Al Fayed buys the London-based department store company, Harrods.
May 11 - Fire engulfs a wooden stand in the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England during a football match, killing 56.
May 29 - In the Heysel Stadium disaster at the European Cup final in Brussels, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured.
June 1 - Battle of the Beanfield, end of Stonehenge Free Festivals.
July 4 - 13-year-old Ruth Lawrence achieves a first in Mathematics at Oxford University, by becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
July 13 - Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia and London raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
August 22 - 55 people killed in the Manchester air disaster at Manchester International Airport when a British Airtours Boeing 737 burst into flames after the pilot aborts the takeoff.
September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
September 28 - A riot in Brixton erupts after an accidental shooting of a woman by police.
October 1 - Riots in Toxteth and Peckham; Lord Scarman's report blamed the riots on economic deprivation and racial discrimination.
October 6 - PC Keith Blakelock is killed during the Broadwater Farm Riot in Tottenham, London.
November 15 - Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough Castle. Treasury Minister Ian Gow resigns in protest at the deal.
November 28 - Gerard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, assassinated in London.
November 29 - a gas explosion kills four people in Glasgow.