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25 November 1985 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 25 November 1985 was a Monday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “I'm Your Man” by Wham!.
- Top Film of 1985
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1985 was Back to the Future.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 25 November is Sagittarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 25 November 1985 fell in the Year of the Ox.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 25 November 1985 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 25 November
- 1980 Sangoulé Lamizana, president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo.
- 1981 Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
- 1984 Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- 1986 Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1986 The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
Famous people born on 25 November
- John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and publisher (1960–1999)
- Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer (born 1981)
- Christina Applegate, American actress (born 1971)
- Joel Kinnaman, Swedish actor (born 1979)
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Events of 1985 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '1985 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 19 February – EastEnders, the BBC One soap opera set in the fictional London Borough of Walford, debuts.
- 13 May – The Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms is released; it becomes the first compact disc to sell over 1,000,000 copies.
- 1 June – Battle of the Beanfield, Britain's largest mass arrest and the effective end of Stonehenge Free Festivals.
Life in 1985
Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
67p
Loaf of Bread
46p
Average House
£31,103
Weekly Wage
£177.00
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