The 1982 Lebanon war was part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Lebanese Civil War. It began on 6 June 1982. Israel called it Operation Peace for Galilee. It was later known as the Lebanon war or First Lebanon war. The war started when the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) attacked southern Lebanon. On 3 June 1982 the tried to assassinate Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov. This may have been done to hurt the PLO's reputation. At the time, however, Israel blamed the PLO for the attempt. The shooting of the ambassador was the trigger that caused Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
Francisco Morales-Bermúdez
Francisco Morales Bermúdez Cerruti (born October 4, 1921) is a Peruvian general and politician. Bermudez was President of Peru from August 1975 through July 1980. His grandfather and all his original family were from the old Peruvian department of Tarapacá, which is now part of Chile. Unable to control the political and economic troubles that the nation faced, he was forced to return power to civilian rule, marking the end of the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces installed by a coup d'etat on 3 October 1968. At age , he is currently the oldest living former Peruvian president.
Born in Lima in 1921, he is the son of Army Colonel Remigio Morales Bermúdez and grandson of ex-President Remigio Morales Bermúdez. He received most of his education at Lima's "Colegio Inmaculada". In 1939, he was accepted to the "Escuela Militar de Chorrillos" (Chorrillos Military School). After his graduation, he was an important member of the "Centro de Altos Estudios Militares" (CAEM).
Cuthbert Sebastian
Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian, GCMG, OBE (22 October 1921 – 25 March 2017) was the former Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis. He was appointed Governor-General in 1995 and was sworn in on 1 January 1996. While in office, he was the world's oldest "de facto" head of state.
His retirement was announced on 25 December 2012. He left office on 1 January 2013.
Sebastian died on 25 March 2017 in Basseterre from complications of pneumonia at the age of 95.
Dobrica Ćosić
Dobrica Ćosić (29 December 1921 – 18 May 2014) was a Serbian writer, theorist and politician. He was the first president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1993. He is often known as the "Father of the Nation".
Luis Echeverría
Luis Echeverría Álvarez (born January 17, 1922) is an Mexican politician and writer. He was President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. He wrote several books about his years in office and about his retirement.
Echeverría was born in Mexico City, Mexico.
Benefits Street
Benefits Street is a documentary series on the British television channel Channel 4. It started on 6 January 2014. Five episodes will be shown. It is about some of the people who live on James Turner Street in Birmingham. 90% of the people on the street claim benefits. 4.3 million people watched the first episode. It was Channel 4's most-watched shown in more than a year. It shows some people who claim benefits (claimants) doing crimes.
Almost 300 complaints were made to Ofcom after the first episode was shown. Dee Roberts complained that she had been tricked into being on the programme. She said that the people on the programme thought the show was about a working class community, but that instead they had been portrayed as "complete scum". Almost 10,000 people signed a petition asking Channel 4 to show no more episodes of the show. Steve Haywood, a friend of an alcoholic in the programme known as Fungi, said that Channel 4 gave Fungi beer so that he would be on the show.
Frederick IX of Denmark
Frederick IX of Denmark (11 March 1899 - 14 January 1972) was King of Denmark from 20 April 1947 until his death on 14 January 1972. He was the son of King Christian X of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg. He was the fourth Danish monarch of the House of Glucksburg.
Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé (27 March 1892 – 3 April 1972) was an American musician. He is a composer, arranger and pianist. During the 1920s and 1930s, he went by the name Ferdie Grofé.
Ken Maynard
Ken Maynard (21 July 1895 – 23 March 1973) was an American movie actor. He was also a stuntman.
Gustaf VI Adolf
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (11 November 1882-15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death.
Gustaf VI was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before becoming king he had been Crown Prince of Sweden. During this long period of time he became a scholar and an archaeologist. He was also a well regarded expert on Chinese art. At his death he left his large collection of Chinese art to the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities ("Östasiatiska Museet") in Stockholm, Sweden. In World War II Gustaf, as Crown Prince, spoke out publicly against sending Jews to Auschwitz. This was after the public learned of the extermination camps in Germany. He was the last king to rule under a Constitutional Monarchy with any power. Gustaf VI died in 1973. His grandson, Carl XVI Gustaf, succeeded him as king.
Gustaf VI married Margaret of Connaught in 1905. She died in 1920. Together they had four sons and one daughter:
Gustaf VI married as his second wife, Lady Louise Mountbatten, in 1923. She died in 1965.
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Ana Konjuh
Ana Konjuh (born 27 December 1997 in Dubrovnik) is a Croatian tennis player.
Konjuh has won one singles title on the ITF tour in her career. On 10 February 2014, she reached her best singles ranking: 201st in the world.
In 2013, Konjuh was ranked number one in the ITF junior world rankings.
Konjuh won both the junior singles and doubles events at the Australian Open in January 2013. Later in the year, she won the girl's singles event at the US Open.
Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila (7 August 1932 - 25 October 1973) was a double Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia. He was the first black African Olympian to win a gold medal representing his own country. He is most famous for the gold medal he won in the 1960 Summer Olympics at Rome. He won the marathon while running barefoot. He won his second Gold medal in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. This made him the first man ever to win two Olympic marathons. He competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. Bikila was injured in an automobile accident in 1970. It left him a paraplegic. He died at the age of forty-one on 23 October 1973. This was due to complications from his earlier accident. A stadium in Addis Ababa is named after him.
David Oistrakh
David Oistrakh (30 September 1908 - 24 October 1974) was a classical violinist. He is considered one of the most important violinists of the 20th century. Oistrakh worked with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States. Many musical pieces for the violin have been dedicated to Oistrakh. This includes both of Dmitri Shostakovich's violin concerti, and the violin concerto by Adam Khachaturian.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian movie director, poet and writer. Pasolini was born in Bologna and raised in Veneto and Fruili. His poetry was first published when he was 19 years old. He wrote many novels and essays. He wrote his first screenplay in 1954. The first movie he directed was "Accattone" in 1961. This and many of his other works were controversial during his lifetime. In the years since his death, however, Pasolini has come to be valued by many as a visionary thinker and a major figure in Italian literature and art. Literary critic Harold Bloom considered Pasolini to be a major European poet and a major voice in 20th-century poetry.
Pasolini was gay. He was murdered on 2 November 1975. He was run over several times with his own car. He died on the beach at Ostia, near Rome. He was buried in Casarsa, in Friuli.
Paul Robeson