Pole vault athlete Holly Bleasdale

Events in 1991 and 2-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Holly Bleasdale

• 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 Holly Bleasdale (2-11) in history

• Day 2-11 year 1889: North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states, respectively.
• Day 2-11 year 1947: Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose on its first and only flight.
• Day 2-11 year 1948: Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey to the surprise of pollsters and newspapers, in the greatest presidential upset in history.
• Day 2-11 year 1959: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
• Day 2-11 year 1976: Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the deep South since the Civil War.
• Day 2-11 year 1984: Velma Margie Barfield, a convicted murderer became the first woman to be executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
• Day 2-11 year 2003: V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the church.