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  • Chicago, U.S.
    Jun, 1985
    Barack Obama

    Community organizer

    Chicago, U.S.
    Jun, 1985

    Two years after graduating from Columbia, Obama was back in Chicago when he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project, a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale on Chicago's South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.




  • England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 1, 1985
    Heysel Stadium Events

    UEFA banned English clubs for "...An indeterminate period of time"

    England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 1, 1985

    Pressure mounted to ban English clubs from European competition. On 31 May 1985, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher asked the FA to withdraw English clubs from European competition before they were banned, but two days later, UEFA banned English clubs for "...An indeterminate period of time".




  • Zurich, Switzerland
    Wednesday Jun 5, 1985
    Heysel Stadium Events

    FIFA extended the ban

    Zurich, Switzerland
    Wednesday Jun 5, 1985

    On 6 June, FIFA extended this ban to all worldwide matches, but this was modified a week later to allow friendly matches outside of Europe to take place.




  • U.S.
    Jun, 1985
    Atari, Inc.

    The Atari ST.

    U.S.
    Jun, 1985

    Under Tramiel's ownership, Atari Corp. used the remaining stock of game console inventory to keep the company afloat while they finished development on a 16/32-bit computer system, the Atari ST. ("ST" stands for "sixteen/thirty-two", referring to the machines' 16-bit bus and 32-bit processor core). In April 1985, they released the first update to the 8-bit computer line — the Atari 65XE, the Atari XE series. June 1985 saw the release of the Atari 130XE; Atari User Groups received early sneak-preview samples of the new Atari 520ST's, and major retailer shipments hit store shelves in September 1985 of Atari's new 32-bit Atari ST computers.




  • Near Watervill, Ireland
    Sunday Jun 23, 1985
    Plane Accidents

    Air India Flight 182

    Near Watervill, Ireland
    Sunday Jun 23, 1985

    Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747-237B, crashed off the southwest coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, when a bomb exploded in the cargo hold. All 307 passengers and 22 crew members died. One passenger had checked in as "M. Singh". Singh did not board the flight. His suitcase containing the bomb was loaded onto the plane, however. "Mr. Singh" was never identified or captured. It was later determined Sikh extremists were behind the bombing as a retaliation for the Indian government's attack on the Golden Temple in the city of Amritsar, which is very important for the Sikhs. This was, at the time, the deadliest terrorist attack involving an airplane.




  • Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 30, 1985
    Michael Phelps

    Birth

    Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 30, 1985

    Phelps was born in Baltimore, Maryland.




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