Musically star Dixon Guido

Events in 2000 and 21-1

Events in US in the birth year of Dixon Guido

• Wary investors bring stock plunge; beginning of the end of the Internet stock boom (Feb. 25).
• Cuban boy Elián González, 6, at center of international dispute, reunited with his father after federal raid of Miami relatives' home (April 22).
• U.S. presidential election closest in decades; Bush's slim lead in Florida leads to automatic recount in that state (Nov. 7-8). Republicans file federal suit to block manual recount of Florida presidential election ballots sought by Democrats (Nov. 11). Florida Supreme Court rules election hand count may continue (Nov. 21). U.S. Supreme Court orders halt to manual recount of Florida votes (Dec. 9). Supreme Court seals Bush victory by 5-4; rules there can be no further recounting (Dec. 12). See 2000 election chronology.
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Dixon Guido (21-1) in history

• Day 21-1 year 1793: King Louis XVI was beheaded for treason.
• Day 21-1 year 1915: The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit.
• Day 21-1 year 1924: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in Moscow.
• Day 21-1 year 1950: Former State department official Alger Hiss found guilty of perjury.
• Day 21-1 year 1954: USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine was launched.
• Day 21-1 year 1977: President Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft evaders.
• Day 21-1 year 2003: The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Hispanics had surpassed Blacks as the largest minority group.
• Day 21-1 year 2010: In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that the government cannot restrict the spending of corporations for political campaigns, maintaining that it's their First Amendment right to support candidates as they choose. This decision upsets two previous precedents on the free-speech rights of corporations.