1985-February

• February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
• February 9 – U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico (his body is discovered March 5).
• February 10 – Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government.
• February 14 – CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.^[1]
• February 16 – Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.
• February 19
  • William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital.
  • China Airlines Flight 006 is involved in a mid-air incident; while there are two injuries, no one is killed.
• February 20 – Minolta releases world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
• February 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing 9 officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.