2015 Event Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party, is elected as Prime Minister of Greece on an anti-austerity platform 2010 Event Abd-al-Rahman Awad, the suspected leader of Fatah al-Islam, the radical Sunni Islamist group, is fatally shot and killed by Lebanon 1990 Event Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow 1987 Event 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy 1985 Event Argentine President Alfonsins Radical Burgerunie wins elections 1984 Event Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy 1974 Event 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy 1972 Death Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63 1962 Birthday Taslima Nasrin, born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, doctor turned author, fled Bangladesh to live in exile since 1994, radical feminist and critic of Islam, works for New York University 1957 Birthday Stephen Jones, born in Wirral Peninsula, England, British milliner, considered the most radical, prolific milliner of the late 20th-early 21st-century 1929 Birthday Allard Lowenstein, radical, Students for Democratic Action 1927 Birthday Thomas J J Altizer, Massachusetts, U.S. Radical theologian, God is Dead 1909 Birthday Saul David Alinsky, born in Chicago, Illinois, radical writer, John L Lewis 1874 Event Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction 1868 Death Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76 1792 Birthday Thaddeus Stevens, U.S. Radical Republican congressional leader, Rep-R 1753 Birthday Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist 1541 Death Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61