Dance artist Rino Nakasone Razalan

Events in 1979 and 11-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Rino Nakasone Razalan

• Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
• Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
• Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
• Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
• Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Rino Nakasone Razalan (11-6) in history

• Day 11-6 year 1509: King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon. She was the first wife of the king.
• Day 11-6 year 1770: Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.
• Day 11-6 year 1919: Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown.
• Day 11-6 year 1963: Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama following Gov. George Wallace’s famous "stand in the schoolhouse door."
• Day 11-6 year 1977: Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
• Day 11-6 year 2001: Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, was executed.