Swimmers Laszlo Cseh

Events in 1985 and 3-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Laszlo Cseh

• Soviet leader Chernenko dies at 73 and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54 (March 11). Under the slogans of glasnost and Perestroika, Gorbachev initiates a broad program of reform and liberalization. Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans (June 14); 39 remaining hostages freed in Beirut (June 30).
• PLO terrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew (Oct. 7); American, Leon Klinghoffer, killed (Oct. 8); Italian government toppled by political crisis over hijacking (Oct. 16).
• Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit (Nov. 19); agree to step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts (Nov. 21). Background: nuclear disarmament
• Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens (Nov. 23); 59 dead as Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta (Nov. 24).

Birthday Laszlo Cseh (3-12) in history

• Day 3-12 year 1818: Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
• Day 3-12 year 1833: Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
• Day 3-12 year 1910: Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
• Day 3-12 year 1919: French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
• Day 3-12 year 1967: Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
• Day 3-12 year 1984: A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.