Composer Do Ai Tu

Events in 1985 and 10-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Do Ai Tu

• 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 Do Ai Tu (10-3) in history

• Day 10-3 year 1629: King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament to prevent an annual reassessment of the King's revenues.
• Day 10-3 year 1785: The founder of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was appointed Minister of France.
• Day 10-3 year 1848: Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
• Day 10-3 year 1864: U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
• Day 10-3 year 1876: The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• Day 10-3 year 1948: The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
• Day 10-3 year 1969: James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.