Actor Joey Massey

Events in 2000 and 25-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Joey Massey

• 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 Joey Massey (25-2) in history

• Day 25-2 year 1570: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Excommunicated by Pope Pius V
• Day 25-2 year 1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patented the first rotating multi-shot gun.
• Day 25-2 year 1870: Hiram Revels became the first black United States senator, taking over the term of Jefferson Davis.
• Day 25-2 year 1901: J.P. Morgan formed U.S. Steel Corporation, the first billion-dollar corporation in the world.
• Day 25-2 year 1948: Communists took control of the government in Czechoslovakia.
• Day 25-2 year 1964: Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first time by knocking out Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.
• Day 25-2 year 1983: Tennessee Williams, American playwright, died.
• Day 25-2 year 1986: President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines; Corazon Aquino took over the office.
• Day 25-2 year 1990: Violeta Chamorro was elected president of Nicaragua, a victory for opponents of the Sandinistas.