Football player Ailton Jose Almeida

Events in 1984 and 20-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Ailton Jose Almeida

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Ailton Jose Almeida (20-8) in history

• Day 20-8 year 1964: As part of his Great Society policies, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act which, among other things, established the Head Start program.
• Day 20-8 year 1968: The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia.
• Day 20-8 year 1977: The space probe Voyager 2 was launched. It continues to explore to this day, and is now more than 7 billion miles from Earth.
• Day 20-8 year 1980: Italian Reinhold Messner made the first successful solo ascent of Mount Everest and without oxygen.
• Day 20-8 year 1998: U.S. cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Afghanistan and the Sudan.
• Day 20-8 year 2000: Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year.