Hockey player Oliver Ekman-larsson

Events in 1991 and 17-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Oliver Ekman-larsson

• 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 Oliver Ekman-larsson (17-7) in history

• Day 17-7 year 1821: Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
• Day 17-7 year 1898: Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.
• Day 17-7 year 1917: The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.
• Day 17-7 year 1938: "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.
• Day 17-7 year 1945: President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.
• Day 17-7 year 1955: Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
• Day 17-7 year 1975: The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.
• Day 17-7 year 1998: The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.