The January 27, 1985 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 26 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 41 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 164 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, January 27, 2027, in 200 days. You have lived for 15,139 days, or about 363,343 hours, or about 21,800,585 minutes, or about 1,308,035,100 seconds.
Date: 27 January 1985
A New Jersey judge has overturned the conviction of a reporter found guilty of impersonating a morgue attendant to interview the family of a murder victim. The judge, Edward W. McGrath of Superior Court in Elizabeth, said he had upset the conviction because the attorney for the family failed to disclose during the trial that a civil suit for damages would be filed.
Date: 27 January 1985
By John Noble Wilford
John Wilford
The silence is haunting. Somewhere out in orbit, the space shuttle Discovery circles the earth once every 90 minutes like a ghost ship. Five men on board go about their business, and messages pass between them and Mission Control, but all is in code. Not a sound of life on the Discovery reaches the news center here, not a single televised image. The silence grows stranger with each passing hour of the secret mission, the first ever by American astronauts. It brings back memories of all those past missions when the communications circuits were open and they crackled with the dialogue of brave pursuits.
Date: 27 January 1985
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1985 The President said he was ''not euphoric'' about reaching an arms agreement with the Soviet Union before the end of his second term. The White House announced that the talks with Moscow would begin March 12 in Geneva. A similar announcement was made in Moscow. But Mr. Reagan said he said he was ''a little more optimistic'' than his advisers over the prospects of an arms pact with Moscow. (Page 1, Column 6.)
Date: 28 January 1985
UPI
Upi
Greg Foster achieved a world indoor best time of 6.30 seconds in the 50- meter hurdles, and Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan edged Steve Scott to win his second mile in 48 hours today at the Bally Invitational track meet. Foster, the silver medalist at the 1984 Olympics in the 110-meter hurdles, bettered the previous best of Renaldo Nehemiah, which was 6.36 seconds in 1979. Foster's best came in a preliminary heat before he won the final in 6.44.
Date: 27 January 1985
Three weeks after the Boston Shipyard Corporation began to overhaul the frigate Connole, the Navy canceled the $8.5 million contract. It said it was dissatisfied with the work.
Date: 27 January 1985
A Gulf Coast condominium project going up in Perdido Key, Ala., was threatening the beach mice when the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service office in Atlanta moved in on the site. Estimating that the Perdido Key beach mice were down to 26 survivors, the service baited 538 traps with peanut butter and sunflower seeds last October, hoping to catch and relocate the animals.
Date: 27 January 1985
For six years, rush-hour motorists have been crawling to work along the Henry Hudson Parkway and crawling back at night. The highway has been undergoing reconstruction north of 125th Street, and each day, three lanes of traffic have had to squeeze into two lanes or often one.
Date: 28 January 1985
Entropy, the favorite, got up in the last jump to finish in a dead heat with Muskoka Wyck yesterday in the $71,200 Coaltown Stakes at Aqueduct. Carrying 114 pounds and with Wesley Ward up, the front-running Muskoka Wyck appeared the winner until the furious rush by Entropy, the high weight at 123 pounds, with Jerry Bailey up. The winning time for the six furlongs was 1:10 1/ 5.
Date: 28 January 1985
AP
Don Ebert's third-quarter goal proved to be the winner as the St. Louis Steamers evened their Major Indoor Soccer League record at 12-12 today with a 4-2 victory over the Cosmos. The Steamers got off to a 3-0 start with a second-period score by Redmond Lane and third-period tallies by Tony Glavin and Ebert before the Cosmos (8-16) got a goal by Mark Liveric late in the third quarter.
Date: 28 January 1985
AP
The Philadelphia Phillies have reached agreement on a trade to send Al Oliver to the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the deal cannot be made until contract terms are worked out, Bill Giles, the Phillies president, said today. Giles said the team's general manager, Paul Owens, and its chief scout, Hugh Alexander, completed the trade last week. The Phillies would get the right-handed pitcher Pat Zachry in return.