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Events in 1985 and 12-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Poetplays

• 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 Poetplays (12-9) in history

• Day 12-9 year 1609: Explorer Henry Hudson began his exploration of the river that is now named after him.
• Day 12-9 year 1953: Future President John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier.
• Day 12-9 year 1977: South African black civil rights leader Steven Biko died while in police custody.
• Day 12-9 year 1992: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman in space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour .
• Day 12-9 year 1999: Indonesia announced it would allow an international peacekeeping force to restore order to East Timor.