Illustrator Kadir Nelson

Events in 1974 and 15-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Kadir Nelson

• 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 Kadir Nelson (15-5) in history

• Day 15-5 year 1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.
• Day 15-5 year 1911: The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Day 15-5 year 1918: The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.
• Day 15-5 year 1930: On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
• Day 15-5 year 1940: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
• Day 15-5 year 1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.
• Day 15-5 year 1988: The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.