Opera Singer Sarah Brightman

Events in 1960 and 14-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Sarah Brightman

• American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia (May 1).
• Khrushchev kills Paris summit conference because of U-2 (May 16).
• Top Nazi murderer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina (May 23)—executed in Israel in 1962.
• Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.
• Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain independence.
• There are 900 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War

Birthday Sarah Brightman (14-8) in history

• Day 14-8 year 1900: International forces entered Beijing, China, in an effort to suppress the antiforeign uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion.
• Day 14-8 year 1935: The Social Security Act became law.
• Day 14-8 year 1945: Japan surrendered to the United States, ending World War II.
• Day 14-8 year 1947: Pakistan became independent of British rule.
• Day 14-8 year 1951: Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California.
• Day 14-8 year 1995: Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at the Citadel, the state military college of South Carolina.
• Day 14-8 year 1997: Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
• Day 14-8 year 2003: The largest blackout in North American history hit the northeast.