Live Aid
July 13, 1985
Bob Geldof staged simultaneous concerts at Wembley and Philadelphia to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. Queen's twenty-minute set would become legend. Broadcast to a billion and a half people in over a hundred countries, Live Aid raised more than a hundred million dollars and made celebrity humanitarianism a permanent feature of the world.
In context
Also in 1985 (4 other events on record)
- Gorbachev takes Soviet helm · Europe · Politics
- Discovery of the hole in the ozone layer · Oceania · Science
- British miners' strike ends · Europe · Politics
- Mexico City earthquake · North America · Disaster
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Culture
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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