Actor Boris Kodjoe

Events in 1973 and 8-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Boris Kodjoe

• Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enter European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• A ceasefire is signed, ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War. (Jan. 28).
• US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia (Aug. 15).
• Chile's Marxist president, Salvadore Allende, is overthrown (Sept. 11); Gen. Augusto Pinochet takes power.
• Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar (Oct. 6). Egypt and Israel sign US-sponsored cease-fire accord (Nov. 11). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hikes oil prices tremendously in retaliation for Western countries' involvement in Yom Kippur War.

Birthday Boris Kodjoe (8-3) in history

• Day 8-3 year 1782: A peaceful settlement of Delaware Indians were massacred by militia at Gnadenhutten in Ohio.
• Day 8-3 year 1917: Russia's February Revolution, which eventually led to the overthrow the csarist government, began.
• Day 8-3 year 1945: Phyllis Mae Daley, the first African-American nurse to serve in World War II, received her U.S. Navy commission.
• Day 8-3 year 1948: The Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
• Day 8-3 year 1950: The Soviet Union claimed to be in possession of the atomic bomb.
• Day 8-3 year 1965: First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.
• Day 8-3 year 1983: President Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire."
• Day 8-3 year 1999: Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died.