Radio program host Dan Katz

Events in 1985 and 30-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Dan Katz

• 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 Dan Katz (30-1) in history

• Day 30-1 year 1649: King Charles I of England was beheaded at Whitehall Palace, London
• Day 30-1 year 1933: Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.
• Day 30-1 year 1948: Gandhi was assassinated.
• Day 30-1 year 1968: North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive.
• Day 30-1 year 1972: British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre.
• Day 30-1 year 1979: The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.