Football player Marco Materazzi

Events in 1973 and 19-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Marco Materazzi

• Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enter European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• A ceasefire is signed, ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War. (Jan. 28).
• US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia (Aug. 15).
• Chile's Marxist president, Salvadore Allende, is overthrown (Sept. 11); Gen. Augusto Pinochet takes power.
• Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar (Oct. 6). Egypt and Israel sign US-sponsored cease-fire accord (Nov. 11). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hikes oil prices tremendously in retaliation for Western countries' involvement in Yom Kippur War.

Birthday Marco Materazzi (19-8) in history

• Day 19-8 year 1812: The U.S. frigate Constitution , Old Ironsides, defeated the British ship Guerriere during the War of 1812.
• Day 19-8 year 1934: Germans voted to make Adolf Hitler Fuhrer.
• Day 19-8 year 1960: American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was convicted of espionage in Moscow.
• Day 19-8 year 1977: Comedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86.
• Day 19-8 year 2003: U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of 22 killed when a suicide car bomb struck the UN's Baghdad headquarters.