Female Opera Karina Garcia

Events in 1984 and 14-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Karina Garcia

• Syria frees captured US Navy pilot, Lieut. Robert C. Goodman, Jr. (Jan. 3).
• US and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116-year hiatus (Jan. 10).
• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).
• Yuri V. Andropov dies at 69; Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72, named Soviet leader (Feb. 9). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion (Feb. 18).
• Soviet Union withdraws from summer Olympic games in US, and other bloc nations follow (May 7 et seq.).
• José Napoleón Duarte, moderate, elected president of El Salvador (May 11).
• Three hundred slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar (June 6).
• Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her (Oct. 31).
• Toxic gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 2,000 and injuring 150,000 (Dec. 3).

Birthday Karina Garcia (14-11) in history

• Day 14-11 year 1851: Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick has been published.
• Day 14-11 year 1889: Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.
• Day 14-11 year 1922: The British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.
• Day 14-11 year 1969: Apollo 12, the second manned lunar expedition, was launched.
• Day 14-11 year 1995: The U.S. federal government began a partial shut down of government services after the U.S. Congress could not pass a budget.
• Day 14-11 year 2002: Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in Congress.
• Day 14-11 year 2003: The most distant object ever found in our solar system, named Sedna, was discovered by astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory.