TV show host Jessica Jane Clement

Events in 1985 and 24-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Jessica Jane Clement

• 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 Jessica Jane Clement (24-2) in history

• Day 24-2 year 1582: Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull introducing the Gregorian calendar reform. The solar calendar that is being officially used in most countries around the world is therefore called the Gregorian calendar.
• Day 24-2 year 1803: The Supreme Court ruled in Marbury v. Madison that any act of Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is null and void.
• Day 24-2 year 1821: Mexico declared its independence from Spain.
• Day 24-2 year 1868: Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, became the first president to have impeachment proceedings brought against him by the House of Representatives.
• Day 24-2 year 1903: The lease for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was signed.
• Day 24-2 year 1920: Adolf Hitler outlined the basic points of the Nazi party at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich.
• Day 24-2 year 1968: The discovery of a pulsar was announced.
• Day 24-2 year 1980: The U.S. hockey team defeated Finland to win the gold medal at the Lake Placid Olympics.
• Day 24-2 year 2022: The Russian Federation began its first attack on Ukraine, a large-scale military offensive (or "special military operation") against Ukraine, which the United Nations calls Russia. Invasion of Ukraine, the Western press called "Russia invaded Ukraine," "Ukrainian war," German press called "Putin war."