Football player Bradley Wright-Phillips

Events in 1985 and 12-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Bradley Wright-Phillips

• 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 Bradley Wright-Phillips (12-3) in history

• Day 12-3 year 1912: Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.
• Day 12-3 year 1930: Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
• Day 12-3 year 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide "fireside chats" on radio.
• Day 12-3 year 1938: "Anschluss" took place when Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.
• Day 12-3 year 1947: President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communism.
• Day 12-3 year 1993: Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.
• Day 12-3 year 1994: The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.
• Day 12-3 year 2002: The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
• Day 12-3 year 2003: The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.