Editing 1985 (section)

===January===
* [[January 1]]
** The Internet's [[Domain Name System]] is created.{{fact|date=May 2025}}
** [[Greenland]] withdraws from the [[European Economic Community]] as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights.<ref>{{cite book|author=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Committee for Fisheries|title=Problems of Trade in Fishery Products|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GcTAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development|isbn=978-92-64-12775-3|page=157}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency]] launches ''[[Sakigake]]'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the [[United States space exploration programs|United States]] or the [[Soviet space program|Soviet Union]].
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Tancredo Neves]] is [[Brazilian presidential election, 1985|elected]] president of [[Brazil]] by the [[National Congress of Brazil|Congress]], ending the [[Military dictatorship in Brazil|21-year military rule]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Higley|author2=Richard Gunther|author3=Higley John|title=Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkfEamELMFAC&pg=PA264|year=1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-42422-6|pages=264}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; The [[Economic Cooperation Organization|Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)]] is formed, in Tehran.<ref>{{cite book|title=Central Asia Monitor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QppAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Central Asia Monitor|page=16}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; The charity single record "[[We Are the World]]" is recorded by [[USA for Africa]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bob Smith|author2=Salim Amin|title=The Man Who Moved the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5AcuDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|date=20 December 2013|publisher=Master Publishing|isbn=978-9966-052-03-2|pages=85}}</ref>