Youtube star Louise Pentland

Events in 1985 and 28-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Louise Pentland

• 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 Louise Pentland (28-4) in history

• Day 28-4 year 1788: Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.
• Day 28-4 year 1789: Sailor Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
• Day 28-4 year 1945: Benito Mussolini was executed.
• Day 28-4 year 1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.
• Day 28-4 year 1967: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.
• Day 28-4 year 1992: The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”
• Day 28-4 year 2001: Dennis Tito became the first space tourist.
• Day 28-4 year 2004: The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's 60 Minutes II.