TV actress Bianca Gervais

Events in 1985 and 21-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Bianca Gervais

• 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 Bianca Gervais (21-6) in history

• Day 21-6 year 1527: Italian Renaissance philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli passed away in Florence, Italy. Many people know him through “The Prince,”.
• Day 21-6 year 1788: New Hampshire becomes the 9th US state.
• Day 21-6 year 1834: Inventor Cyrus McCormick patented his mechanical washing machine.
• Day 21-6 year 1964: Three civil rights workers—James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24—disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. In 2005, 41 years after the disappearance, Edgar Killen was convicted of their murders.
• Day 21-6 year 1982: John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan.
• Day 21-6 year 1989: The U.S. Supreme Court decided that burning the U.S. flag was protected under the First Amendment.
• Day 21-6 year 1997: The WNBA made its debut.
• Day 21-6 year 2004: Michael Melvill pilots the first privately-developed spacecraft,SpaceShipOne, into space.