Fashion designer Daniel Mkongo

Events in 1990 and 12-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Daniel Mkongo

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Daniel Mkongo (12-2) in history

• Day 12-2 year 1554: In just nine days, Lady Jane Gray, the queen of England, was executed for high treason. She is known by the nickname "Queen of Nine Days".
• Day 12-2 year 1733: James Edward Oglethorpe led the first British colonists to Savannah, the first capital of Georgia. He later became the first governor of Georgia.
• Day 12-2 year 1818: Chile formally proclaimed its independence from Spain.
• Day 12-2 year 1870: The Utah Territory granted women the right to vote (revoked in 1887).
• Day 12-2 year 1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
• Day 12-2 year 1912: Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu (Ch'ing) dynasty in China, renounced his throne following the establishment of a republic under Sun Yat-sen.
• Day 12-2 year 1973: The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam war took place.
• Day 12-2 year 1999: The Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
• Day 12-2 year 2002: Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial for war crimes.
• Day 12-2 year 2010: The 2010 Winter Olympics opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The games got off to a tragic start when a luger from the Republic of Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, dies tragically in a crash during training run.