TV actor David McIntosh

Events in 1985 and 10-12

Events in the world in the birth year of David McIntosh

• 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 David McIntosh (10-12) in history

• Day 10-12 year 1817: Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
• Day 10-12 year 1869: The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
• Day 10-12 year 1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
• Day 10-12 year 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
• Day 10-12 year 1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1999: Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
• Day 10-12 year 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.