Drum artist Chuck Comeau

Events in 1979 and 17-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Chuck Comeau

• 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 Chuck Comeau (17-9) in history

• Day 17-9 year 1787: The Constitution was completed and signed by most delegates to the constitutional convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Day 17-9 year 1862: The bloodiest day in U.S. military history occurred at the Battle of Antietam when more than 23,000 were killed or wounded.
• Day 17-9 year 1908: Lt. Thomas Selfridge, a passenger in a plane piloted by Orville Wright, became the first airplane fatality when the craft crashed.
• Day 17-9 year 1920: The American Professional Football Association—a precursor of the NFL—was formed in Canton, Ohio.
• Day 17-9 year 1980: Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former president of Nicaragua, was assassinated in Paraguay.
• Day 17-9 year 1994: Heather Whitestone of Alabama became the first deaf Miss America.
• Day 17-9 year 2004: Barry Bonds became the third baseball player to hit 700 career home runs, joining Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.