Actress Sabrina Man

Events in 2000 and 12-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Sabrina Man

• 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 Sabrina Man (12-3) in history

• Day 12-3 year 1912: Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.
• Day 12-3 year 1930: Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
• Day 12-3 year 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide "fireside chats" on radio.
• Day 12-3 year 1938: "Anschluss" took place when Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.
• Day 12-3 year 1947: President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communism.
• Day 12-3 year 1993: Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.
• Day 12-3 year 1994: The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.
• Day 12-3 year 2002: The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
• Day 12-3 year 2003: The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.