TV actor Luke Hemsworth

Events in 1981 and 5-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Luke Hemsworth

• US-Iran agreement frees 52 hostages held in Teheran since 1979 (Jan. 20); hostages welcomed back in US (Jan. 25). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• Pope John Paul II wounded by gunman (May 14).
• Israel annexes the disputed Golan Heights territory (Dec. 14).
• Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated by Islamic extremists during a military parade in Cairo (Oct. 6).
• President Hilla Limann is overthrown in Ghana as Jerry J. Rawlings seizes power.

Birthday Luke Hemsworth (5-11) in history

• Day 5-11 year 1605: The "Gunpowder plot" of a group of Catholics to assassinate King James I by blowing up the British Parliament has failed.
• Day 5-11 year 1872: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).
• Day 5-11 year 1895: George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• Day 5-11 year 1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Wendell L. Willkie.
• Day 5-11 year 1968: The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
• Day 5-11 year 1974: Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
• Day 5-11 year 1989: Pianist Vladimir Horowitz died in New York at age 85.
• Day 5-11 year 1994: At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
• Day 5-11 year 2011: Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.