Football player John Arne Riise

Events in 1980 and 24-9

Events in the world in the birth year of John Arne Riise

• Six US embassy aides escape from Iran with Canadian help (Jan. 29). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• US breaks diplomatic ties with Iran (April 7).
• Eight US servicemen are killed and five are injured as helicopter and cargo plane collide in abortive desert raid to rescue American hostages in Teheran (April 25). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ousted Nicaraguan ruler, and two aides are assassinated in Paraguayan capital of Asunción (Sept. 17).
• Iraqi troops hold 90 square miles of Iran after invasion; 8-year Iran-Iraq War begins (Sept. 19).
• Three US nuns and a lay worker are found shot in El Salvador (Dec. 4).

Birthday John Arne Riise (24-9) in history

• Day 24-9 year 1789: Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.
• Day 24-9 year 1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
• Day 24-9 year 1960: The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
• Day 24-9 year 1969: The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.
• Day 24-9 year 1991: Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
• Day 24-9 year 1996: The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.