Politicians Henrique Capriles Radonski

Events in 1972 and 11-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Henrique Capriles Radonski

• President Nixon makes unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Mao Zedong (Feb. 17).
• Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland in bid for peace (March 24).
• Eleven Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invades Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed (Sept. 5).
• Nixon orders "Christmas bombing" of North Vietnam (Dec.). Background: Vietnam War

Birthday Henrique Capriles Radonski (11-7) in history

• Day 11-7 year 1533: Pope Clement VII announced an annulment of the marriage of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
• Day 11-7 year 1804: Former U.S. Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was fatally stabbed by his colleague Aaron Burr and died the following afternoon.
• Day 11-7 year 1864: Confederate general Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, DC. They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.
• Day 11-7 year 1914: Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
• Day 11-7 year 1977: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.
• Day 11-7 year 1989: Actor Laurence Olivier died.
• Day 11-7 year 1995: The United States and Vietnam established full diplomatic relations.
• Day 11-7 year 2011: The News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, closes after several allegations that the paper's journalists hacked into voicemail accounts belonging to not only a 13-year-old murder victim, but also the relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.