Football player Stephan Lichtsteiner

Events in 1984 and 16-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Stephan Lichtsteiner

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Stephan Lichtsteiner (16-1) in history

• Day 16-1 year 1547: Tyrant Ivan IV Vasilyevich has crowned the first tsar of Russia.
• Day 16-1 year 1883: The U.S. Civil Service Commission established.
• Day 16-1 year 1920: A year after it was ratified, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, went into effect.
• Day 16-1 year 1942: Actress Carole Lombard, the wife of actor Clark Gable, died in a plane crash.
• Day 16-1 year 1991: Operation Desert Storm was announced by the White House.
• Day 16-1 year 1992: The El Salvador government signed a peace treaty with guerrilla forces, formally ending 12 years of civil war.
• Day 16-1 year 2001: Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was assassinated.
• Day 16-1 year 2003: Space shuttle Columbia blasted off on what would be its final mission. The craft broke up on its descent on Feb. 1, killing all on board.