Football player Yann Songo'o

Events in 1991 and 19-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Yann Songo'o

• Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious. Background: The Persian Gulf War
• Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5).
• France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31).
• Communist Government of Albania resigns (June 4).
• Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1).
• Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Yeltsin's stock increases when he takes a prominent role in suppressing an anti-Gorbachev coup by communist hardliners (Aug. 18-22). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR (Aug. 25); US recognizes them (Sept. 2).
• Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). US suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1).
• US indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15).
• Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25). Background: Dissolution of the USSR

Birthday Yann Songo'o (19-11) in history

• Day 19-11 year 1703: The death of a mysterious masked man, he was imprisoned in the Bastille prison in Paris. His true identity was the cause of many conspiracies, and his story became the basis for the literary works of François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
• Day 19-11 year 1794: John Jay and Lord Grenville signed Jay's Treaty.
• Day 19-11 year 1863: Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.
• Day 19-11 year 1977: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
• Day 19-11 year 1985: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time in Geneva.
• Day 19-11 year 1990: Milli Vanilli's Grammy award was rescinded after it was discovered they didn't do their own singing.