Female Opera Daisy Turner

Events in 1990 and 28-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Daisy Turner

• 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 Daisy Turner (28-6) in history

• Day 28-6 year 1836: The fourth President of the United States, James Madison, passed away in Montpelier, Virginia.
• Day 28-6 year 1894: Labor Day became a federal holiday by an act of Congress.
• Day 28-6 year 1914: Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated, setting off World War I.
• Day 28-6 year 1919: The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
• Day 28-6 year 1978: The Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs was not permissible.
• Day 28-6 year 1996: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit women.
• Day 28-6 year 1997: Boxer Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight title fight, earning a 16-month suspension.
• Day 28-6 year 2000: Elian Gonzalez was returned to his father in Cuba.
• Day 28-6 year 2001: Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic over to the UN war crimes tribunal.
• Day 28-6 year 2004: In Iraq, the United States transferred power back to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned.