Female Opera Ruby O'Donnell

Events in 2000 and 26-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Ruby O'Donnell

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Ruby O'Donnell (26-10) in history

• Day 26-10 year 1774: The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Day 26-10 year 1825: The Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie to the Hudson River, opened.
• Day 26-10 year 1881: Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday were involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
• Day 26-10 year 1975: Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the United States.
• Day 26-10 year 1979: South Korean president Park Chung Hee was killed by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
• Day 26-10 year 1994: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Clinton.
• Day 26-10 year 2002: Russian government forces stormed the Moscow theater held by Chechen rebels. More than 100 hostages were killed.
• Day 26-10 year 2005: The Chicago White Sox sweep the Houston Astros to win their first World Series in 88 years.