Basketball players Jonas Maciulis

Events in 1985 and 10-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Jonas Maciulis

• Soviet leader Chernenko dies at 73 and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54 (March 11). Under the slogans of glasnost and Perestroika, Gorbachev initiates a broad program of reform and liberalization. Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans (June 14); 39 remaining hostages freed in Beirut (June 30).
• PLO terrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew (Oct. 7); American, Leon Klinghoffer, killed (Oct. 8); Italian government toppled by political crisis over hijacking (Oct. 16).
• Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit (Nov. 19); agree to step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts (Nov. 21). Background: nuclear disarmament
• Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens (Nov. 23); 59 dead as Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta (Nov. 24).

Birthday Jonas Maciulis (10-2) in history

• Day 10-2 year 1763: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all North American territories east of Mississippi to Great Britain.
• Day 10-2 year 1837: Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
• Day 10-2 year 1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
• Day 10-2 year 1942: Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
• Day 10-2 year 1962: The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
• Day 10-2 year 1967: The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
• Day 10-2 year 1996: IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
• Day 10-2 year 2005: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.