Reality star Lauren Goodger

Events in 1986 and 19-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Lauren Goodger

• Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
• Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
• President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
• Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
• Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
• Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
• World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).

Birthday Lauren Goodger (19-9) in history

• Day 19-9 year 1881: President James Garfield died of a gunshot wound inflicted by a disappointed office seeker the previous July 2.
• Day 19-9 year 1934: Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder.
• Day 19-9 year 1955: President Juan Peron of Argentina was deposed and exiled after a military coup.
• Day 19-9 year 1957: The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.
• Day 19-9 year 1962: Gov. Ross Barnett blocked James Meredith from enrolling in the University of Mississippi.
• Day 19-9 year 1985: The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed thousands of lives. The second earthquake hit 36 hours later.
• Day 19-9 year 1994: U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
• Day 19-9 year 2001: The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.