Singer Rapper Lethal Bizzle

Events in 1984 and 14-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Lethal Bizzle

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Lethal Bizzle (14-9) in history

• Day 14-9 year 1814: Attorney Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics for the US national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner."
• Day 14-9 year 1901: President McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
• Day 14-9 year 1927: Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France.
• Day 14-9 year 1940: Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
• Day 14-9 year 1959: The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashed onto the lunar surface.
• Day 14-9 year 1982: Princess Grace of Monaco died from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day.
• Day 14-9 year 1994: Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the 1994 baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.