Mixed martial arts athlete MMA Pedro Rizzo

Events in 1974 and 3-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Pedro Rizzo

• OPEC ends the oil embargo begun in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War (Mar. 18).
• Nixon and Brezhnev meet in Moscow to discuss arms limitation agreements. Background: nuclear disarmament
• Leftist revolution ends almost 50 years of dictatorial rule in Portugal (launched Apr. 25).
• India successfully tests an atomic device, becoming the world's sixth nuclear power (May 18).
• Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed. A collective military dictatorship assumes power (Sept. 12).

Birthday Pedro Rizzo (3-5) in history

• Day 3-5 year 1937: Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.
• Day 3-5 year 1948: The Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court decision stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property.
• Day 3-5 year 1979: Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.
• Day 3-5 year 1986: At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.
• Day 3-5 year 1999: Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale.
• Day 3-5 year 2001: The United States, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission since its inception, lost its seat. It would be restored the following year.
• Day 3-5 year 2003: New Hampshire’s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain, collapsed in the state’s Franconia Mountains.