Here are just a few people and events that have made the Headlines since 1985!

1984 Saturday July 13th Bob Geldof & Midge Ure organise & perform at Live Aid

1988 Celine Dion wins Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9 is considered the date the Wall fell

1990 February 11th Nelson Mandela is released after 27 year imprisonment

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns on 25 December and the Soviet Union is formally dissolved on December 26

1993 Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States on January 20

1994 Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa on 27th April and inaugurated on May 10

1994 Queen Elizabeth II and French President Mitterrand officially open the Chanel Tunnel on 6 May

1994 Noel Edmunds presents the First National Lottery show on November 19th

1995 Friends airs for the first time in the UK

1997 May 2nd Tony Blair wins his first term as Prime Minister

2000 Steve Redgrave wins 5th Olympic gold.

2004 October 9th Queen Elizabeth officially opens the New Scottish Parliament

2007 The seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - is published

2008 November 4th Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States