Hockey player Jason Garrison

Events in 1984 and 13-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Jason Garrison

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Jason Garrison (13-11) in history

• Day 13-11 year 1775: U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
• Day 13-11 year 1927: The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey.
• Day 13-11 year 1940: Walt Disney's Fantasia debuted.
• Day 13-11 year 1942: The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
• Day 13-11 year 1946: Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.
• Day 13-11 year 1956: The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.
• Day 13-11 year 1982: The Vietnam War Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC.
• Day 13-11 year 2001: The Taliban abandoned Afghanistan's capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.