Pop - Singer Hong Jin-young

Events in 1985 and 9-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Hong Jin-young

• Soviet leader Chernenko dies at 73 and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54 (March 11). Under the slogans of glasnost and Perestroika, Gorbachev initiates a broad program of reform and liberalization. Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans (June 14); 39 remaining hostages freed in Beirut (June 30).
• PLO terrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew (Oct. 7); American, Leon Klinghoffer, killed (Oct. 8); Italian government toppled by political crisis over hijacking (Oct. 16).
• Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit (Nov. 19); agree to step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts (Nov. 21). Background: nuclear disarmament
• Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens (Nov. 23); 59 dead as Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta (Nov. 24).

Birthday Hong Jin-young (9-8) in history

• Day 9-8 year 1854: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, was published.
• Day 9-8 year 1936: Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympics.
• Day 9-8 year 1945: The United States exploded a nuclear bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
• Day 9-8 year 1965: Singapore proclaimed its independence from Malaysia.
• Day 9-8 year 1974: Vice president Gerald Ford was sworn in as president following Nixon's resignation.
• Day 9-8 year 1995: Jerry Garcia, lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, died.