Instagram star Anna Grostina

Events in 1998 and 1-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Anna Grostina

• Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (March 5 et seq.). Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels (June 1). NATO, on verge of air strikes, reaches settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo (Oct. 12).
• Good Friday Accord is reached in Northern Ireland (April 10). Irish Parliament backs peace agreement (April 22). Background: N. Ireland Peace Negotiations
• Europeans agree on single currency, the euro (May 3).
• India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval (May 11, 13). Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response (May 29, 30).
• Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power (May 21).
• Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors (Aug. 5). Clinton orders air strikes (Dec. 16–19).
• US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed (Aug. 7). US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan (Aug. 20).
• Russia fights to avert financial collapse (Aug. 17).
• Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London (Oct. 16).
• Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward (Oct. 23). Background: Middle East Peace Negotiations

Birthday Anna Grostina (1-4) in history

• Day 1-4 year 1789: Mr Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Day 1-4 year 1933: The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses.
• Day 1-4 year 1945: American forces landed on Okinawa during World War II.
• Day 1-4 year 1960: The first U.S. weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral.
• Day 1-4 year 1970: President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television.
• Day 1-4 year 1976: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer.
• Day 1-4 year 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Day 1-4 year 2001: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic arrested on corruption charges.
• Day 1-4 year 2003: Pvt. Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
• Day 1-4 year 2004: President Bush signed the "Laci Peterson" bill making it a separate federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on the mother.
• Day 1-4 year 2009: Sweden becomes the fifth European country to legalize same-sex marriage. The other countries with the same rights are The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain.