Editing 1985 (section)

==Events==
*January 1 - [[Golden Dawn]] is founded.
*January 10 - [[Daniel Ortega]] is elected President of Nicaragua. The [[Junta of National Reconstruction]] is subsequently dissolved.
*January 13 - [[Saparmurat Niyazov]] is named Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR.
*January 14 - [[Hun Sen]] is elected Prime Minister of Cambodia.
*February 28 - The [[Irish Republican Army]] carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry in Northern Ireland. With nine officers dead, it is the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
*April 6 - [[Jaafar Nimeiry]] is ousted as President of Sudan in a military coup lead by a group of Army officers, and is subsequently [[exile]]d to Egypt.
*April 19 - [[The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord]] is dissolved.
*April 22 - The Trial of the Juntas convenes to prosecute surviving members of the [[National Reorganization Process]] in Argentina.
*May 19 - [[Hezbollah]] is founded.
*June 23 - [[Air India Flight 182]] explodes in a bomb attack perpetrated by the Sikh terrorist organization [[Babbar Khalsa]].
*June 30 - Palau President Haruo Remeliik is assassinated by an unidentified gunman at the entrance of his house.
*July 27 - [[Milton Obote]] is overthrown as President of Uganda.
*July 28 - [[Alan García]] is elected President of Peru for the first time.
*August 4 - [[Huang Zhiheng]] murders Zheng Lin and his family.
*August 20 - The [[Iran-Contra affair]] begins when [[Oliver North]] of the National Security Council proposes the sale of weapons to Iran as a means of funding the Nicaraguan [[Contras]].
*August 25 - [[Muhammad Buhari]] is overthrown as head of state of Nigeria by General [[Ibrahim Babangida]], who declares himself president.
*August 31 - [[Richard Ramirez]] is apprehended in Los Angeles.
*September - [[Pol Pot]] steps down as leader of the [[Khmer Rouge]], ceding power to [[Khieu Samphan]].
*October 1 - Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization's headquarters in Hammam Chot, Tunisia in an attempt to assassinate [[Yasser Arafat]]. Arafat survives but between 47 and 71 others are killed.
*December 4 - [[Gertrude Baniszewski]] is released from prison on parole.
*December 16 - [[Paul Castellano]], boss of the Gambino crime family, is assassinated in the parking lot of Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan on the orders of [[John Gotti]], who takes over as the new Gambino boss.
*December 25 to 30 - The Agacher Strip War is fought.