TV show host Lisa Chimes

Events in 1984 and 11-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Lisa Chimes

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Lisa Chimes (11-1) in history

• Day 11-1 year 1935: Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• Day 11-1 year 1964: The first government report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking was issued by the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry.
• Day 11-1 year 1973: Baseball's American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.
• Day 11-1 year 2002: The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• Day 11-1 year 2003: Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state's death row by commuting the sentences of 167 inmates.
• Day 11-1 year 2011: The Arab Spring movement begins in Tunisia when demonstrators take to the streets to protest chronic unemployment and police brutality.