Australian Referee Daniel Talia

Events in 1991 and 2-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Daniel Talia

• Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious. Background: The Persian Gulf War
• Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5).
• France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31).
• Communist Government of Albania resigns (June 4).
• Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1).
• Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Yeltsin's stock increases when he takes a prominent role in suppressing an anti-Gorbachev coup by communist hardliners (Aug. 18-22). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR (Aug. 25); US recognizes them (Sept. 2).
• Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). US suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1).
• US indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15).
• Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25). Background: Dissolution of the USSR

Birthday Daniel Talia (2-10) in history

• Day 2-10 year 1919: President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed.
• Day 2-10 year 1944: The two-month-long Warsaw Uprising was squelched by Nazi troops battling the Polish underground.
• Day 2-10 year 1950: The "Peanuts" comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, first appeared in newspapers.
• Day 2-10 year 1958: Guinea proclaimed its independence from France.
• Day 2-10 year 1967: Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Day 2-10 year 1998: Gene Autry, the singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, died at age 91.