November 1985

Wednesday 06:

The Playboy Club in New York admits topless male "bunnies" for the first time.

Saturday 09:

Louis Papaloizou is born in Co. Durham, England.

Wednesday 13:

Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.

Thursday 14:

Tragedy in Colombia: eruption of volcano Nevado del Ruiz provoked 23 000 deaths in city of Armero (was buried).

Friday 15:

The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

Monday 18:

Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, was first published.

Tuesday 19:

Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history, stemming from Texaco establishing a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.)

Thursday 21:

United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).

Friday 22:

According to ancient aztec mythology, the future saviour of the world would be born on this date.

Saturday 23:

Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.

Tuesday 26:

US President Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.