Baseball player Alexander Guerrero

Events in 1986 and 20-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Alexander Guerrero

• Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
• Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
• President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
• Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
• Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
• Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
• World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).

Birthday Alexander Guerrero (20-12) in history

• Day 20-12 year 1790: Samuel Slater built America's first cotton mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
• Day 20-12 year 1803: The United States officially bought the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million.
• Day 20-12 year 1860: South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
• Day 20-12 year 1968: Author John Steinbeck died at age 66.
• Day 20-12 year 1989: The United States invaded Panama and installed a new government but failed to capture General Manuel Antonio Noriega.
• Day 20-12 year 1996: Astronomer Carl Sagan died at age 62.