Timeline Sunday 22 September 1985

Events on Sunday 22 September 1985 4

• 1985 John Mellencamp co-founds Farm Aid With Willie Nelson and Neil Young Benefit concerts for family farmers.
• 1985 Neil Young co-founds Farm Aid With Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp The first Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois, for American family farmers.
• 1985 Plaza Accord signed Major economies agree to devalue the US dollar Finance officials from the United States, Japan, West Germany, France and the United Kingdom met at New York's Plaza Hotel on 22 September 1985 and agreed to coordinate action to weaken the US dollar against the yen and Deutsche mark. The accord reshaped global trade balances and is widely linked to Japan's subsequent asset price bubble. It remains a landmark example of coordinated international currency intervention.
• 1985 Willie Nelson co-founds Farm Aid With Neil Young and John Mellencamp Benefit concerts for family farmers.