3rd » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain) called National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
3rd » A 1985 Santiago earthquake or magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
4th » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
7th » The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
8th » A 1985 Beirut Car Bombing named failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
13th » The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
15th » The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
15th » Brazilian military dictatorship ends.
16th » Associated Press newsman Terry A. Anderson known as Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
17th » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
20th » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
20th » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
31st » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.