| January 21, 1985 |
Record breaking cold weather sweeps into Georgia, with the temperature reaching -8 degrees in Atlanta, -6 degrees in Macon and 3 degrees in Savannah
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| February 11, 1985 |
Judge Frank A. Hooper dies. |
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Frank A. Hooper |
| February 14, 1985 |
Whitney Houston releases her first album (self-titled). Sales hit 14 million records
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Whitney Houston
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| March 8, 1985 |
Edward Andrews died, Santa Monica, California
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Edward Andrews |
| March 9, 1985 |
Whitney Houston's You Give Good Love, a soothing ballad debuts on Billboard's Hot 100
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Whitney Houston
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| April 23, 1985 |
New Coke is introduced. The controversy is immediate and wide-spread, and Coca-Cola does not expect the frenzied rejection of its "new" offering.
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Coca-Cola |
| May 20, 1985 |
Rescue mission ends in crash, Duluth
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Rescue mission ends in crash, Duluth |
| June 3, 1985 |
61-year old cancer patient Katy Yarbrough is overdosed with radiation by a Therac 25 at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, the first such case reported. The machine will eventually be withdrawn from the market and the FDA will rewrite virtually all of its regulations as a result of this and other cases involving the Therac 25.
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Marietta, GA |
| June 11, 1985 |
The Georgia Supreme Court overturns the lower court ruling, orders new trial for Jim Williams
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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| July 10, 1985 |
Classic Coke returns, the pre-"New Coke" Coke, with a new name
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Coca-Cola |
| August 2, 1985 |
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes while attempting to land at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport. The original impact was in an empty field, but the plane remained intact and "bounced" onto a 6-lane highway, then crashing into a pair of water tanks. 136 out of 167 passengers died. |
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Delta Air Lines
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| September 1, 1985 |
Cale Yarborough's broken belt at the Southern 500 in Darlington, SC, ensures a million-dollar celebration for Bill Elliott. Elliott won the Daytona 500 in February and the Winston 500 in May. With the win at Darlington, he became the first person to win three of the top 4 races in the NASCAR circuit
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Bill Elliott |
| September 29, 1985 |
Skydiving plane crashes, Jenkinsburg
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Butts County, Georgia |
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Skydiving plane crashes, Jenkinsburg |
| December 9, 1985 |
3 judge panel finds that pretrial publicity about the Alday family murders made a fair trial virtually impossible in Seminole County
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Alday family murders
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Seminole County, Georgia |
| December 16, 1985 |
Wachovia and First Atlanta (formerly First National Bank of Atlanta) merge. |
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| December 28, 1985 |
Georgia ties Arizona 13-13 in the Sun Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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