Football player David Chabala

Events in 1960 and 2-2

Events in the world in the birth year of David Chabala

• American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia (May 1).
• Khrushchev kills Paris summit conference because of U-2 (May 16).
• Top Nazi murderer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina (May 23)—executed in Israel in 1962.
• Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.
• Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain independence.
• There are 900 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War

Birthday David Chabala (2-2) in history

• Day 2-2 year 1536: The capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, is the largest port city founded by Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza.
• Day 2-2 year 1709: Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after four years alone on a deserted island off the coast of Chile. He was the inspiration for writer Daniel Defoe to write the famous novel "Robinson Crusoe."
• Day 2-2 year 1848: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, was signed. In the treaty, Mexico ceded to the United States a huge portion of what is today the American West and Southwest, including California and New Mexico.
• Day 2-2 year 1870: The Cardiff Giant was revealed to be a hoax.
• Day 2-2 year 1876: The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs was formed.
• Day 2-2 year 1887: The first gathering at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsatawney, Pa. to wait for the groundhog's shadow occurred.
• Day 2-2 year 1922: James Joyce's Ulysses was published.
• Day 2-2 year 1943: Nazi troops surrendered in the World War II Battle of Stalingrad.
• Day 2-2 year 1971: Idi Amin became dictator of Uganda.
• Day 2-2 year 1980: The Abscam scandal was revealed.
• Day 2-2 year 1990: South African President F. W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.
• Day 2-2 year 2003: Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel stepped down after 13 years.