of the ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War, resigns from the Ministry of Defence. February 17, 1985 (Sunday) The annual Daytona 500 motor race takes place at Daytona International Speedway, Florida, United States, and is won by Bill Elliott. The 1985 Argentine Primera División football competition begins, continuing until September 4. UK band Tears For Fears releases the Songs from the Big Chair album, which later achieves multi-platinum status in both the UK and the US. February 18, 1985 (Monday) The 1985 Virginia Slims of California indoor tennis tournament begins in Oakland, California, United States, continuing until February 24. BBC One retires its outdated Noddy camera system and its Mirror Globe ident in favor of the COW Globe at 7 pm. February 19, 1985 (Tuesday) 54-year-old William J. Schroeder, one of the first recipients of an artificial heart, becomes the first to be discharged from hospital. Iberia Flight 610, a Boeing 727-256 named Alhambra de Granada, crashes as a result of striking a television antenna on the summit of Mount Oiz in Biscay, Spain; all 148 people on board are killed. It is the most serious accident in the airline's history. China Airlines Flight 006, a Boeing 747 with 284 people on board on a daily non-stop flight from Taipei to Los Angeles, suffers an aircraft upset at 40,000 feet. The pilot recovers control after a 30,000-foot (9,146 m) plunge over the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco. Twenty-four people are injured, two of them seriously. The first episode of BBC TV's long-running soap opera EastEnders is broadcast in the UK. February 20, 1985 (Wednesday) While visiting the United States, UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher addresses a Joint Meeting of Congress. February 21, 1985 (Thursday) Died: Louis Hayward, 75, South African-born actor, from lung cancer February 22, 1985 (Friday) Died: Efrem Zimbalist, 95, Russian-born violinist, composer, conductor and music director February 23, 1985 (Saturday) February 1985 Paris bombing: A bomb planted in a Marks & Spencer department store on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, France, kills an employee and injures 15 others. February 24, 1985 (Sunday) Polar 3, a survey and research plane operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, is shot down over Western Sahara south of Dakhla, by the Polisario Front, while en route to West Germany from Antarctica, killing all three on board. February 25, 1985 (Monday) The pound sterling closed at an