Singer Rapper Kendo Kaponi

Events in 1984 and 19-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Kendo Kaponi

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Kendo Kaponi (19-8) in history

• Day 19-8 year 1812: The U.S. frigate Constitution , Old Ironsides, defeated the British ship Guerriere during the War of 1812.
• Day 19-8 year 1934: Germans voted to make Adolf Hitler Fuhrer.
• Day 19-8 year 1960: American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was convicted of espionage in Moscow.
• Day 19-8 year 1977: Comedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86.
• Day 19-8 year 2003: U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of 22 killed when a suicide car bomb struck the UN's Baghdad headquarters.