Rugby athlete Nick Deluca

Events in 1984 and 1-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Nick Deluca

• Syria frees captured US Navy pilot, Lieut. Robert C. Goodman, Jr. (Jan. 3).
• US and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116-year hiatus (Jan. 10).
• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).
• Yuri V. Andropov dies at 69; Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72, named Soviet leader (Feb. 9). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion (Feb. 18).
• Soviet Union withdraws from summer Olympic games in US, and other bloc nations follow (May 7 et seq.).
• José Napoleón Duarte, moderate, elected president of El Salvador (May 11).
• Three hundred slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar (June 6).
• Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her (Oct. 31).
• Toxic gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 2,000 and injuring 150,000 (Dec. 3).

Birthday Nick Deluca (1-2) in history

• Day 1-2 year 1790: The United States Supreme Court was convened for the first time in New York City.
• Day 1-2 year 1862: Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
• Day 1-2 year 1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
• Day 1-2 year 1946: A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Day 1-2 year 1960: Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
• Day 1-2 year 1968: During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
• Day 1-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
• Day 1-2 year 2003: The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
• Day 1-2 year 2004: Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
• Day 1-2 year 2009: Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.