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unusual facts about Eighty-fifth United States Congress



Aeroflot Flight 892

Aeroflot Flight 892 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Minsk to East Berlin, which crashed on 12 December 1986 due to pilot error, killing seventy-two of the eighty-two passengers and crew on board.

Albert P. Morano

Morano was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1959).

Albert W. Cretella

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress, after which he returned to the practice of law.

Basil Lee Whitener

Whitener was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1969); he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress and an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress.

Ben Lilly

He died at eighty, on December 17, 1936, on a ranch in Pleasanton, near Silver City, New Mexico and is buried in the historic Memory Lane Cemetery in Silver City.

Biggest Part of Me

"Biggest Part of Me", a song by Ambrosia from their 1980 album One Eighty, later covered by Take 6

C. W. Bishop

He served as chairman of the Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures in the Eighty-third Congress.

Cecil M. Harden

Harden was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959).

Charles W. Vursell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress.

Conn Iggulden

It covers around eighty topics, from building a soapbox racer and tying knots, to learning about famous battles and how to make potassium aluminium sulphate crystals.

Curtiss SO3C Seamew

Lettice Curtis, in her book "Forgotten Pilots", stated 'that although its standard fuel tanks held 300 gallons, it would only just take off with the eighty gallons' fixed as the maximum for Air Transport Auxiliary trips.

Debach

The author Ronald Blythe wrote the book Akenfield while living in Debach in 1966-7 and mentions the village - "a tiny parish of some eighty souls" - in the preface to the book.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1990

In the County Championship, they won six matches to finish twelfth in their eighty-sixth season in the Championship.

Edmund Rowe

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress and for election in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Edwin H. May, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958.

El Escorial

To decorate the reredos, or altar screens, the king's preferences were Michelangelo or Titian, but both of these giants were already more than eighty years old and in frail health.

Elmer J. Hoffman

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1965).

Emmanuel Goldstein

In the 1995 film Hackers, Matthew Lillard plays a character named Emmanuel Goldstein, who makes a reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four with the line: "'1984'? Yeah, right. That's a typo."

Emory H. Price

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

F. Jay Nimtz

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress.

Fernand St. Germain

St. Germain was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1989).

Frank B. Morse

After the death of Edith Nourse Rogers in September 1960, he was selected by the Republican Party to take her place on the ballot and was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress in November 1960.

George A. Shuford

Shuford was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1959).

Gerald W. Landis

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Harry P. O'Neill

O'Neill was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952, when redistricting forced him into an election with fellow incumbent Congressman Joseph L. Carrigg.

James A. Haley

Haley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1977).

John A. Whitaker

He was reelected to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from April 17, 1948, until his death in Russellville, Kentucky, December 15, 1951.

John F. Baldwin, Jr.

Baldwin was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 1966.

John H. Rousselot

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962, losing to Democrat Ronald B. Cameron.

John J. Gilligan

In 1964 he was elected to the Eighty-ninth Congress as a representative for Ohio's 1st district, serving from January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967.

Joseph F. Holt

Holt was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third in 1952 and served three additional terms until he declined to run for reelection in 1960.

Karl M. Le Compte

He served as chairman of the Committee on House Administration in the Eightieth Congress (from 1947 to 1948) and in the Eighty-third Congress (from 1953 to 1955).

Kenneth W. Dyal

Dyal was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967).

LeRoy H. Anderson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

Monticello, Missouri

On July 9, 1862 Confederate guerrilla leader Raphael Smith, a pre-war tanner in the area, raided Monticello with a force of eighty men.

Myra Crownover

During the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, Crownover served on the Appropriations Committee of the Texas House of Representatives.

Neil J. Linehan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress and for election in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress.

Perophora japonica

Two years later it was reported eighty miles further east in the Fleet, Dorset and in another two years it was present in Guernsey.

Richard W. Hoffman

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Rolla C. McMillen

He was reelected to the Seventy-ninth, Eightieth, and Eighty-first Congresses, and served from June 13, 1944, to January 3, 1951.

Sex and drugs

Tobacco use (e.g., cigarette smoking), also reduces sexual function, with the incidence of impotence being approximately eighty-five percent higher in male smokers compared to non-smokers.

Sherman P. Lloyd

Lloyd was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress, November 6, 1962 defeating fellow State Senator Bruce Jenkins.

Thomas C. McGrath, Jr.

In his first bid, for elective office, McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, defeating four-term Republican Party incumbent Milton W. Glenn.

Thomas M. Rees

Rees was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative James Roosevelt, and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (December 15, 1965-January 3, 1977).

Thomas S. Gordon

He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-fifth Congress).

W. H. C. Lawrence

Eighty-five years later, in 1974, another Canadian author, Richard Rohmer revisited the theme in his novel, Ultimatum.

Water supply and sanitation in Benin

Eighty percent of the urban water supply demand is concentrated in Cotonou, Porto Novo, Parakou and Abomey/Bohicon.

William G. Bray

Bray was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1975).


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