Actor Christian Martyn

Events in 2000 and 23-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Christian Martyn

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Christian Martyn (23-2) in history

• Day 23-2 year 1821: British Romantic Poet John Keats Dies in Rome, Italy
• Day 23-2 year 1836: Mexican general Santa Anna began the siege of the Alamo.
• Day 23-2 year 1896: The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.
• Day 23-2 year 1898: 1898 French novelist Emile Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
• Day 23-2 year 1942: The first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near Santa Barbara, Calif.
• Day 23-2 year 1945: U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.
• Day 23-2 year 1997: Scottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly.
• Day 23-2 year 2011: The Obama Administration determines that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.