Reality star Lauren Makk

Events in 1985 and 4-8

Events in US in the birth year of Lauren Makk

• Ronald Reagan, 73, takes oath for second term as 40th President (Jan. 20).
• General Westmoreland settles libel action against CBS (Feb. 18).
• US Supreme Court, 5–4, bars public school teachers from parochial schools (July 1).
• Arthur James Walker, 50, retired naval officer, convicted by federal judge of participating in Soviet spy ring operated by his brother, John Walker (Aug. 9).
• US budget-balancing bill enacted (Dec. 12).

Birthday Lauren Makk (4-8) in history

• Day 4-8 year 1735: Journalist John Peter Zenger, defended by former Pennsylvania House Speaker Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of defamation in a case that helped promote press freedom.
• Day 4-8 year 1884: Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States. He later bicycled around the world.
• Day 4-8 year 1892: Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
• Day 4-8 year 1914: Germany invaded Belgium and, in response, Britain declared war on Germany.
• Day 4-8 year 1916: Denmark ceded the Danish West Indies, including the Danish Virgin Islands, to the United States for $25 million.
• Day 4-8 year 1944: Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis.
• Day 4-8 year 1964: The bodies of three civil-rights workers were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson
• Day 4-8 year 1977: President Carter signed a congressional act that established the Department of Energy.