Darts athlete Adrian Lewis

Events in 1985 and 21-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Adrian Lewis

• 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 Adrian Lewis (21-1) in history

• Day 21-1 year 1793: King Louis XVI was beheaded for treason.
• Day 21-1 year 1915: The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit.
• Day 21-1 year 1924: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in Moscow.
• Day 21-1 year 1950: Former State department official Alger Hiss found guilty of perjury.
• Day 21-1 year 1954: USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine was launched.
• Day 21-1 year 1977: President Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft evaders.
• Day 21-1 year 2003: The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Hispanics had surpassed Blacks as the largest minority group.
• Day 21-1 year 2010: In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that the government cannot restrict the spending of corporations for political campaigns, maintaining that it's their First Amendment right to support candidates as they choose. This decision upsets two previous precedents on the free-speech rights of corporations.