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Events in 2000 and 21-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Scotland Geurink

• 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 Scotland Geurink (21-11) in history

• Day 21-11 year 1783: Two men, D'Rozier and D'Arlandes, made the first free flight in a hot air balloon, reaching a maximum altitude of about 3,000 ft, flying about 5 and a half miles in 20 minutes, and returning safely to the ground.
• Day 21-11 year 1789: North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the United States.
• Day 21-11 year 1922: Georgia's Rebecca Felton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman U.S. Senator.
• Day 21-11 year 1934: Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes opened in New York City.
• Day 21-11 year 1969: For the first time since 1930, the U.S. Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, Clement Haynsworth.
• Day 21-11 year 1973: The 18 1/2 min gap in the Richard Nixon Watergate tapes was revealed.
• Day 21-11 year 1991: Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali was chosen to become secretary-general by the UN Security Council.