MC Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Thao

Events in 1981 and 10-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Thao

• US-Iran agreement frees 52 hostages held in Teheran since 1979 (Jan. 20); hostages welcomed back in US (Jan. 25). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• Pope John Paul II wounded by gunman (May 14).
• Israel annexes the disputed Golan Heights territory (Dec. 14).
• Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated by Islamic extremists during a military parade in Cairo (Oct. 6).
• President Hilla Limann is overthrown in Ghana as Jerry J. Rawlings seizes power.

Birthday Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Thao (10-3) in history

• Day 10-3 year 1629: King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament to prevent an annual reassessment of the King's revenues.
• Day 10-3 year 1785: The founder of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was appointed Minister of France.
• Day 10-3 year 1848: Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
• Day 10-3 year 1864: U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
• Day 10-3 year 1876: The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• Day 10-3 year 1948: The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
• Day 10-3 year 1969: James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.