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Events on Wednesday 3 July 1985 1
1985Back to the Future releasedTime-travel comedy becomes the year's top box office hitRobert Zemeckis's science-fiction comedy Back to the Future opened in US theaters on 3 July 1985, starring Michael J. Fox as a teenager who travels back in time in a modified DeLorean. It became the highest-grossing film of 1985 and spawned two sequels. The film remains one of the most enduringly popular movies of its decade.