Cricket player Adam Harrison

Events in 1985 and 29-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Adam Harrison

• 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 Adam Harrison (29-10) in history

• Day 29-10 year 1682: Writer William Penn set foot in what is now Pennsylvania, USA.
• Day 29-10 year 1787: Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was premiered in Prague, Czech Republic.
• Day 29-10 year 1923: The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
• Day 29-10 year 1929: The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression.
• Day 29-10 year 1956: Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
• Day 29-10 year 1966: The National Organization for Women was founded.
• Day 29-10 year 1998: John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77.
• Day 29-10 year 2004: European leaders signed the European Union's first constitution.
• Day 29-10 year 2012: Hurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the U.S., killing 117 people in the U.S. and 69 in Canada and the Caribbean. The storm caused about $50 billion in damage in the U.S.