Football player Matt Tubbs

Events in 1984 and 15-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Matt Tubbs

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Matt Tubbs (15-7) in history

• Day 15-7 year 1869: Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
• Day 15-7 year 1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
• Day 15-7 year 1918: The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
• Day 15-7 year 1940: The world's tallest man (8 feet, 11.1 inches), Robert Wadlow, died.
• Day 15-7 year 1948: John J. Pershing, whose leadership in World War I earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died in Washington, DC.
• Day 15-7 year 1975: The Russian Soyuz and the U.S. Apollo launched. The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.
• Day 15-7 year 2010: After 86 days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and several previous attempts to contain the flow, BP caps its leaking oil well.