Musically star Rylizzle

Events in 2000 and 11-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Rylizzle

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Rylizzle (11-5) in history

• Day 11-5 year 1858: Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States.
• Day 11-5 year 1894: The Pullman Strike began.
• Day 11-5 year 1949: Siam changed its name to Thailand.
• Day 11-5 year 1960: Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
• Day 11-5 year 1973: Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed.
• Day 11-5 year 1981: Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36.
• Day 11-5 year 1997: IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 for blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties).
• Day 11-5 year 1998: India set off atomic blasts.
• Day 11-5 year 2003: 91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union—the first former Soviet nation to do so.