Football player Nick Barmby

Events in 1974 and 11-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Nick Barmby

• OPEC ends the oil embargo begun in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War (Mar. 18).
• Nixon and Brezhnev meet in Moscow to discuss arms limitation agreements. Background: nuclear disarmament
• Leftist revolution ends almost 50 years of dictatorial rule in Portugal (launched Apr. 25).
• India successfully tests an atomic device, becoming the world's sixth nuclear power (May 18).
• Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed. A collective military dictatorship assumes power (Sept. 12).

Birthday Nick Barmby (11-2) in history

• Day 11-2 year 1805: Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide Sacajawea gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste.
• Day 11-2 year 1809: Engineer Robert Fulton patented his steamship.
• Day 11-2 year 1858: Saint Bernadette of Lourdes first saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France, leading to the foundation of the shrine of Lourdes.
• Day 11-2 year 1929: Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
• Day 11-2 year 1945: Yalta Agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin during World War II.
• Day 11-2 year 1970: Japan became the fourth country to put a satellite into orbit.
• Day 11-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini's followers seized control of the Iran government.
• Day 11-2 year 1989: The Episcopal Church Boston diocese consecrated Barbara Harris as the church's first woman bishop.
• Day 11-2 year 1990: South African resistance leader, Nelson Mandela, was released from prison after more than 27 years.
• Day 11-2 year 2011: As a result of the Arab Spring protests, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announces his resignation and hands power of the country over to the military.
• Day 11-2 year 2012: Pop star Whitney Houston died at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, the night before the annual Grammy Awards.