Football player Danny Andrew

Events in 1990 and 23-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Danny Andrew

• 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 Danny Andrew (23-12) in history

• Day 23-12 year 1783: George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.
• Day 23-12 year 1788: Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the District of Columbia.
• Day 23-12 year 1823: The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the night before Christmas"), written by either Clement C. Moore or Maj. Henry Livingston, Jr., was published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.
• Day 23-12 year 1913: President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the Federal Reserve System.
• Day 23-12 year 1947: The transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley.
• Day 23-12 year 1948: Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed.
• Day 23-12 year 1986: Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling aboard the experimental airplane Voyager.