TV actor Alex Price

Events in 1985 and 17-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Alex Price

• 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 Alex Price (17-10) in history

• Day 17-10 year 1777: British General Burgoyne surrenders in Saratoga County, New York, during the American Revolution.
• Day 17-10 year 1931: Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
• Day 17-10 year 1933: Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
• Day 17-10 year 1979: Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor in Calcutta, India.
• Day 17-10 year 1989: An earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude killed 67 and injured over 3,000 in San Francisco.
• Day 17-10 year 2011: Occupy Wall Street, an organized protest in New York's financial district, expands to other cities across the U.S., including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Occupy Wall Street defines itself as a group of activists who stand against corporate greed, social inequality, and the disproportion between the rich and poor.