Football player Jamie Mackie

Events in 1985 and 22-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Jamie Mackie

• 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 Jamie Mackie (22-9) in history

• Day 22-9 year 1776: Agent Nathan Hale was hanged by the British for spying during the Revolutionary War.
• Day 22-9 year 1789: Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.
• Day 22-9 year 1792: The republican calendar of the First French Republic begins in advance with the "Epoch of Liberty"
• Day 22-9 year 1862: President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, proposing to free all slaves of rebel states as of Jan. 1, 1863.
• Day 22-9 year 1980: The Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
• Day 22-9 year 1989: Songwriter Irving Berlin died in New York City at age 101.