Comedian Dara O Briain

Events in 1972 and 4-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Dara O Briain

• President Nixon makes unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Mao Zedong (Feb. 17).
• Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland in bid for peace (March 24).
• Eleven Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invades Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed (Sept. 5).
• Nixon orders "Christmas bombing" of North Vietnam (Dec.). Background: Vietnam War

Birthday Dara O Briain (4-2) in history

• Day 4-2 year 1783: England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.
• Day 4-2 year 1787: The Massachusetts peasant's revolt, Shays, was defeated.
• Day 4-2 year 1789: George Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.
• Day 4-2 year 1861: Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
• Day 4-2 year 1945: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.
• Day 4-2 year 1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.
• Day 4-2 year 1969: The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• Day 4-2 year 1974: Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• Day 4-2 year 1976: Benjamin Britten, British composer, died.
• Day 4-2 year 2003: The country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.
• Day 4-2 year 2004: The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry.