Mixed martial arts athlete MMA Pablo Popovitch

Events in 1979 and 9-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Pablo Popovitch

• 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 Pablo Popovitch (9-9) in history

• Day 9-9 year 1776: The Second Continental Congress changed the country's name from "United Colony" to "United States of America".
• Day 9-9 year 1850: California becomes the 31st state under the US constitution.
• Day 9-9 year 1893: President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first president's child to be born in the White House.
• Day 9-9 year 1926: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
• Day 9-9 year 1948: The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
• Day 9-9 year 1956: Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
• Day 9-9 year 1976: Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.