TIME: We’re having a moment. Looking at the calendar and seeing the year 2025 made us realize that 1985 was 40 years ago. And what a year it was. We turned to https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/ for some history to share.

That was the year that Coca Cola messed with its recipe and created the universally panned New Coke, and returned a short time later to its original formula, calling it Coca Cola Classic. Bruce Springsteen released “Born in the USA.” Ronald Reagan was inaugurated a second time.

“We Are the World” was recorded by USA for Africa.

Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet leader on March 11.

On March 15, the first internet domain name — symbolics.com — was registered. On May 16, Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.

Tinkerbell took her first nightly flight at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla.

On July 3, the film Back to the Future was released.

July 13: In one of the most famous events in 1985, two Live Aid Concerts took place in Wembley Stadium, London and John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia. At Wembley, Queen’s 21-minute set is considered one of the greatest live concerts of all time.

July 19: Christa McAuliffe is chosen to be the first school teacher to fly in the space shuttle. She would later die in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in January 1986.

In September, the game Super Mario Brothers was introduced by Nintendo.

In November, in Geneva, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time. To hold talks on international relations and the arms race.

The world’s first portable cell phone, car phones, the world’s first graphing scientific calculator, VCR technology, the world’s first portable CD player, and modems with breakneck speed were all invented.