Football player Oliver Neuville

Events in 1973 and 1-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Oliver Neuville

• 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 Oliver Neuville (1-5) in history

• Day 1-5 year 1707: The date of the Act of Confederation allowed the merger of England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.
• Day 1-5 year 1931: The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. Click to see the current tallest.
• Day 1-5 year 1941: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.
• Day 1-5 year 1948: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.
• Day 1-5 year 1960: The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory.
• Day 1-5 year 1967: Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)
• Day 1-5 year 1991: 44-year-old Texas fireballer Nolan Ryan hurled his seventh and final no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. That same day, Oakland's Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record.
• Day 1-5 year 2003: President Bush made a speech aboard an aircraft carrier proclaiming “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
• Day 1-5 year 2009: For the first time in 341 years, a woman is appointed as poet laureate of the United Kingdom. Carol Ann Duffy, 53, will take over the post from current poet laureate Andrew Motion.