Photographers Annamarie Akins

Events in 1990 and 22-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Annamarie Akins

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Annamarie Akins (22-3) in history

• Day 22-3 year 1765: The Stamp Act was enacted by Britain on the American colonies.
• Day 22-3 year 1820: U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.
• Day 22-3 year 1894: The first Stanley Cup championship game was played. The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (which won the cup unchallenged the previous year) triumphed over the Ottawa Capitals.
• Day 22-3 year 1895: Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.
• Day 22-3 year 1945: The Arab League was formed in Cairo, by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
• Day 22-3 year 1972: Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to be ratified by the states. The amendment would fail to get the required 38 states to ratify it.
• Day 22-3 year 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet’s next pass is predicted for the year 4397.
• Day 22-3 year 2012: Amadou Toumani Touré, The President of Mali, was ousted in a coup d'état.