Football player Jay Tabb

Events in 1984 and 21-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Jay Tabb

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Jay Tabb (21-2) in history

• Day 21-2 year 1613: Michael Romanov was elected Tsar of Russia, marking the beginning of the Romanov Empire
• Day 21-2 year 1878: The first telephone book was issued (New Haven, Conn.).
• Day 21-2 year 1916: Battle of Verdun, the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I, began.
• Day 21-2 year 1965: Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated.
• Day 21-2 year 1972: President Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit China.
• Day 21-2 year 1995: Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean solo in a balloon.
• Day 21-2 year 2002: It was confirmed that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was dead, allegedly murdered by Islamic militants.
• Day 21-2 year 2012: Eurozone finance ministers reached an agreement on a second, 130-billion bailout for Greece to help with the country's debt crisis.