Youtube star Andrew Huang

Events in 1984 and 8-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Andrew Huang

• 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• Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).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 Andrew Huang (8-4) in history

• Day 8-4 year 1513: Explorer Ponce de León claimed the land of Florida belonged to Spain.
• Day 8-4 year 1913: The 17th Amendment was ratified, requiring the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislators.
• Day 8-4 year 1935: The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was approved by Congress to help alleviate joblessness during the Great Depression.
• Day 8-4 year 1946: The League of Nations assembled for the last time.
• Day 8-4 year 1973: Artist Pablo Picasso died.
• Day 8-4 year 1974: Henry "Hank" Aaron hit the 715th home run of his career, breaking Babe Ruth's record.
• Day 8-4 year 1986: Actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California.
• Day 8-4 year 1992: Tennis ace Arthur Ashe announced that he had AIDS.