Moscow announces that the USSR will not take part in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
Several other countries, such as Cuba, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Vietnam joined the boycott. 4 years earlier, the United States had not sent any athletes to the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climb Mount Everest without oxygen supply
Prior to the Italian and Austrian mountaineers’ ascent, it was thought to be impossible to conquer the world’s highest mountain without supplemental oxygen.
The Beatles release the album Let It Be
The recording was the last studio album ever released by the legendary English rock band.
Coca-Cola is invented
According to legend, Dr. John Styth Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, produced the syrup in a brass pot in his backyard. It was first intended as a patent medicine. Today, Coca-Cola is one of the world’s most popular soft drinks and one of the most recognized trademarks.
- 1970 Naomi Klein
Canadian author, activist - 1945 Keith Jarrett
American pianist, composer - 1926 David Attenborough
English television host - 1911 Robert Johnson
American singer-songwriter, guitarist - 1884 Harry S. Truman
American colonel, politician, 33rd President of the United States
- 1990 Luigi Nono
Italian composer - 1988 Robert A. Heinlein
American writer - 1903 Paul Gauguin
French painter - 1891 Helena Blavatsky
Russian scholar, theosophist - 1873 John Stuart Mill
English economist, civil servant, philosopher