TV actress Bhavna Limbachia

Events in 1984 and 21-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Bhavna Limbachia

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Bhavna Limbachia (21-4) in history

• Day 21-4 year 1836: Texan army under Sam Houston defeated Mexicans in the Battle of San Jacinto.
• Day 21-4 year 1910: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), author of the novel Huckleberry Finn, died at the age of 74.
• Day 21-4 year 1918: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious World War I German flying ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action today.
• Day 21-4 year 1960: Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia.
• Day 21-4 year 1975: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned.
• Day 21-4 year 1980: Rosie Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. She was later disqualified for cheating.
• Day 21-4 year 1995: Timothy McVeigh was arrested in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing.
• Day 21-4 year 1997: The ashes of Timothy Leary, Gene Roddenberry, and 22 others blasted into space for the first space funerals.