Model Iman Perez

Events in 1999 and 2-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Iman Perez

• Russian president Boris Yeltsin survives impeachment hearings (May), reshuffles his cabinet twice (May, Aug.), and takes military action against Islamic separatists in Dagestan and Chechnya. Background: 1999 in Review.
• Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down (June 16), and Thabo Mbeki takes over.
• War erupts in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic clamps down on the province, massacring and deporting ethnic Albanians. NATO begins Operation Allied Force on March 24, 1999, launching air strikes against Belgrade for 78 consecutive days until Milosevic relents. Background: Timeline: The Splintering of Kosovo and Timeline: NATO in Kosovo.
• Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,600 and leaves 600,000 homeless in Turkey (Aug. 17).
• East Timor population votes for independence from Indonesia (Aug. 30, 1999), which causes pro-Indonesian forces to massacre and uproot thousands of East Timorese.
• Pakistani government is overthrown in the midst of economic strife and intensified fighting with India over Kashmir (Oct. 12). Background: 1999 in Review.
• The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon.
• See also: 1999 Year in Review: News of the World

Birthday Iman Perez (2-5) in history

• Day 2-5 year 1885: Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.
• Day 2-5 year 1939: Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.
• Day 2-5 year 1945: The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
• Day 2-5 year 1955: Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• Day 2-5 year 1969: The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.
• Day 2-5 year 1994: Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.
• Day 2-5 year 1997: The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
• Day 2-5 year 2011: U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• Day 2-5 year 2012: A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.