An Undercover Police Officer apprehends a mugger on the New York Subway, 1985. Photo taken by Bruce Davidson.

Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe watches a successful launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger after being selected to join a later mission in January 1986, which would ultimately end in disaster. Oct. 30, 1985.

Puritan picket against too revealing swimwear on a Florida beach, 1985. USA “You will follow to Hell.”

The only photo of a Concorde flying at Mach 2 taken by Adrian Meredith from an RAF Tornado attack fighter over the Irish Sea in April 1985.

A debris of dishes found on the wreck of the Titanic, 1985.

Excavations at the Cour Napoléon, the Louvre's main courtyard in 1985. Archeologists found walls dating to the Hundred Years' War, the central tower of the 12th century medieval Louvre, Gallo-Roman artifacts, Celtic graves & fragments of human activity from 4,000 BC.

A young Xi Jinping (right), now President of the People's Republic of China, on his first visit to the US, where he stayed with the Dvochak family in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985. .

Vladimir Putin with his parents, Maria and Vladimir. 1985

Metallica 1985.

The daughter of an Auschwitz survivor strikes a skinhead during a march in the Swedish town of Växjö, 1985. The picture was published in the next day’s newspapers and sparked a huge discussion in Sweden

Carnevale di Corleone in Palermo, Sicily 1985.

Jeremy Bamber (center) at the funeral of his parents, sister and nephews who he was later convicted of murdering at his family home of White House Farm. 1985

Mike Tyson before his professional boxing debut in 1985 in Albany, NY. Behind him: coach Cus D’Amato who saw the troubled young heavyweight as his greatest prospect. He defeated Hector Mercedes via first-round TKO.

Princess Diana visits British Petroleum's 'Forties Charlie' oil platform off the Scottish coast, Sept. 3 1985

18 year old Mike Tyson with his trainer Cus D'Amato before his first professional fight in 1985

IRA soldiers posing with a captured informant, Ireland, 1985.

A Brazilian Navy submariner, armed with a FN49 rifle, stands on top of Amazonas (S-16) for shark watch while his friend are swimming in the South Atlantic, January of 1985.

A woman hitting a Neo-Nazi with her purse in Vaxjö, Sweden, 1985

"The Agony of Omayra Sánchez". Omayra was a 13-year-old girl who got stuck in the volcanic debris of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano eruption. She died shortly after this photo was taken, 1985.

Bamiyan Buddha statue, Afghanistan, 1985

Italian Carabinieri surrounded by the American Delta Force during the Sigonella crisis. The event was about to trigger a war between the two countries. Italy, October 1985

Freddie Mercury performing in his famous yellow jacket at the Live Aid performance in Wembley, 13 July 1985. Photograph taken by Neal Preston

Women of Afghanistan, Kabul, 1985.

Photograph of Princess Diana dancing with John Travolta at a White House dinner for the Prince and Princess of Wales 1985

The Woman with the Handbag is a photograph taken in Växjö, Sweden on 13 April 1985. It depicts a 38 year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, hitting a marching Neo-Nazi with a handbag.

Croatian women - sitting by the Sava riverside in Zagreb, Croatia, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Summer months of 1985.

Växjö Sweden, April 13,1985. A woman hits a white supremacist in the head with her handbag

An army tank entering the Palace of Justice of Colombia on November 6, 1985 after it was taken by the guerrilla group M-19.

The only photo of Concorde at supersonic speed April 1985

Manute Bol and Spud Webb as teammates on the USBL’s Rhode Island Gulls in 1985 .

Director Akira Kurosawa on the set of his film Ran, 1985 .

The original disappearing photograph from the unfinished version of "Back to the Future" with Eric Stoltz in the lead role before it was all reshot with Michael J. Fox. 1985

As a birthday gift from British Airways, the Queen Mother is offered a seat in the cockpit of a Concorde jet in 1985.

A Brazilian Miner at the Serra Pelada gold mine. Brazil, July 1985. Photo taken by Robert Nickelsberg.

Xi Jinping in San Francisco. 1985

My Teen buddies. One on the left serving 30 years for double murder. One in red shirt one of the nastiest most notorious drug lords of the Juarez cartel. Info in comments. (1985)

President Ronald Reagan shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva. 1985.

Man feeding pigeons in the middle of the assault and rescue of the Justice Palace at the Bolivar square in Bogotá, Nov. 1985.

Seanchaí (storyteller/historian) Séan Ó hEinirí possibly being the last known monolingual Irish speaker before his death in 1998 , Kilgalligan, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, 1985

Control room of Chernobyl's Reactor 3 in 1985

The current FBI/DEA most wanted fugitive 'Rafael Caro" surprise arrested in his Costa Rica mansion 1985

Christa McAuliffe in the back of a T-38 Trainer jet near Houston, Texas during training for theChallenger launch on January 28th 1986... Taken sometime in late 1985, early '86

US Army female soldier during Exercis REFORGER 85, in Germany, 1985.

A young couple kissing on a subway platform in New York City, 1985. Photographed by Jill Freedman.

Metropolitan Police officer among his detractors during a demonstration in East London, 11 May 1985.

Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod, in 1985

Concorde at Mach 1.5, April 1985, Taken by Adrian Meredith, an RAF Tornado pilot.

The torch of the Statue of Liberty in New York being tended to by workers. In preparation for the removing of the torch in 1985 for restoration, individual panes of glass were taped so they wouldn't fall out of place.

Destroyed houses in Philadelhia, PA, after the Move Bombing, May 13th 1985, the day Philadelphia police bombed a city street.

Two alleged Shining Path recruits captured by Peruvian military. La Mar, Ayacucho, June 1985.