Instagram star Fiona Briseno

Events in 2000 and 24-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Fiona Briseno

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Fiona Briseno (24-1) in history

• Day 24-1 year 41: Gaius Caesar, the Roman emperor, nicknamed Caligula (meaning The Little Shoe - because he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered.
• Day 24-1 year 1848: Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's mill. When President Polk announced the news in December, the gold rush began.
• Day 24-1 year 1908: Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England.
• Day 24-1 year 1943: The Casablanca Conference with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill concluded.
• Day 24-1 year 1965: Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.
• Day 24-1 year 1972: Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on.
• Day 24-1 year 1986: Voyager Two space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus.
• Day 24-1 year 1993: The first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, died.
• Day 24-1 year 2003: The Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department.