Boxing athlete Jason Quigley

Events in 1991 and 19-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Jason Quigley

• 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 Jason Quigley (19-5) in history

• Day 19-5 year 1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded by her husband.
• Day 19-5 year 1588: A massive fleet of 130 ships named Armada, meaning "Greatest and Luckiest Navy", has set out for England. Three months later, the fleet was scuttled by a storm and the British navy.
• Day 19-5 year 1643: Meeting of Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Harbor the colonies of Massachusetts Bay on forming the New England Confederacy.
• Day 19-5 year 1921: Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants.
• Day 19-5 year 1928: The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California.
• Day 19-5 year 1935: British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
• Day 19-5 year 1962: Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to president John F. Kennedy.
• Day 19-5 year 1992: The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect.
• Day 19-5 year 1994: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York.