Basketball players Omer Asik

Events in 1986 and 4-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Omer Asik

• Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
• Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
• President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
• Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
• Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
• Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
• World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).

Birthday Omer Asik (4-7) in history

• Day 4-7 year 1776: The United States declares independence. Officially free from British domination. 
• Day 4-7 year 1826: Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.
• Day 4-7 year 1831: Former president James Monroe died.
• Day 4-7 year 1845: Writer Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond.
• Day 4-7 year 1862: Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice's Adventures Underground to the Liddell sisters.
• Day 4-7 year 1884: The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris.
• Day 4-7 year 1895: Katharine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.
• Day 4-7 year 1939: Lou Gehrig, stricken with ALS, made his farewell at Yankee Stadium.
• Day 4-7 year 1976: The United States celebrated its bicentennial.
• Day 4-7 year 1997: The U.S. Pathfinder probe landed on Mars.
• Day 4-7 year 2012: The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, announced the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson.