Mixed martial arts athlete MMA Gabriel Gonzaga

Events in 1979 and 18-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Gabriel Gonzaga

• Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
• Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
• Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
• Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
• Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Gabriel Gonzaga (18-5) in history

• Day 18-5 year 1642: The city of Montreal in Canada today was founded by the French.
• Day 18-5 year 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
• Day 18-5 year 1896: The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."
• Day 18-5 year 1920: Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland.
• Day 18-5 year 1953: Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
• Day 18-5 year 1974: India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power.
• Day 18-5 year 1980: Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years.
• Day 18-5 year 1994: Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over.
• Day 18-5 year 2000: A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.
• Day 18-5 year 2003: President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia declared martial law and sent 30,000 troops into Aceh.
• Day 18-5 year 2004: Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India.