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Events in 1991 and 2-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Brandon Semenuk

• Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious. Background: The Persian Gulf War
• Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5).
• France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31).
• Communist Government of Albania resigns (June 4).
• Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1).
• Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Yeltsin's stock increases when he takes a prominent role in suppressing an anti-Gorbachev coup by communist hardliners (Aug. 18-22). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR (Aug. 25); US recognizes them (Sept. 2).
• Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). US suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1).
• US indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15).
• Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25). Background: Dissolution of the USSR

Birthday Brandon Semenuk (2-3) in history

• Day 2-3 year 1836: Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
• Day 2-3 year 1877: Rutherford B. Hayes was declared president by a U.S. electoral commission since the original result was too close to call. He was the only president elected this way.
• Day 2-3 year 1917: Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship.
• Day 2-3 year 1923: The first issue of Henry Luce's TIME magazine appeared on newsstands.
• Day 2-3 year 1933: King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premiered in New York City.
• Day 2-3 year 1949: Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop around the world flight. He completed the 23,452-mile journey in 94 hours, 1 minute.
• Day 2-3 year 1956: Morocco gained independence from France.
• Day 2-3 year 1962: Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points in a basketball game.
• Day 2-3 year 2001: The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
• Day 2-3 year 2008: Dmitri A. Medvedev, a former aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin who has never held elected office, won the Russian presidential election in a landslide. Putin remained in a position of power, serving as Medvedev's prime minister.