Radio program host Tore Sagen

Events in 1980 and 7-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Tore Sagen

• Six US embassy aides escape from Iran with Canadian help (Jan. 29). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• US breaks diplomatic ties with Iran (April 7).
• Eight US servicemen are killed and five are injured as helicopter and cargo plane collide in abortive desert raid to rescue American hostages in Teheran (April 25). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ousted Nicaraguan ruler, and two aides are assassinated in Paraguayan capital of Asunción (Sept. 17).
• Iraqi troops hold 90 square miles of Iran after invasion; 8-year Iran-Iraq War begins (Sept. 19).
• Three US nuns and a lay worker are found shot in El Salvador (Dec. 4).

Birthday Tore Sagen (7-11) in history

• Day 7-11 year 1874: The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
• Day 7-11 year 1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
• Day 7-11 year 1917: Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
• Day 7-11 year 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
• Day 7-11 year 1962: Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
• Day 7-11 year 1967: Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
• Day 7-11 year 1989: L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. He became the nation's first elected black governor.
• Day 7-11 year 2000: The U.S. went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.