Actor Nico Liersch

Events in 2000 and 17-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Nico Liersch

• 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 Nico Liersch (17-7) in history

• Day 17-7 year 1821: Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
• Day 17-7 year 1898: Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.
• Day 17-7 year 1917: The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.
• Day 17-7 year 1938: "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.
• Day 17-7 year 1945: President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.
• Day 17-7 year 1955: Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
• Day 17-7 year 1975: The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.
• Day 17-7 year 1998: The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.