Pop - Singer Moa Kikuchi

Events in 1999 and 4-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Moa Kikuchi

• Russian president Boris Yeltsin survives impeachment hearings (May), reshuffles his cabinet twice (May, Aug.), and takes military action against Islamic separatists in Dagestan and Chechnya. Background: 1999 in Review.
• Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down (June 16), and Thabo Mbeki takes over.
• War erupts in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic clamps down on the province, massacring and deporting ethnic Albanians. NATO begins Operation Allied Force on March 24, 1999, launching air strikes against Belgrade for 78 consecutive days until Milosevic relents. Background: Timeline: The Splintering of Kosovo and Timeline: NATO in Kosovo.
• Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,600 and leaves 600,000 homeless in Turkey (Aug. 17).
• East Timor population votes for independence from Indonesia (Aug. 30, 1999), which causes pro-Indonesian forces to massacre and uproot thousands of East Timorese.
• Pakistani government is overthrown in the midst of economic strife and intensified fighting with India over Kashmir (Oct. 12). Background: 1999 in Review.
• The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon.
• See also: 1999 Year in Review: News of the World

Birthday Moa Kikuchi (4-7) in history

• Day 4-7 year 1776: The United States declares independence. Officially free from British domination. 
• Day 4-7 year 1826: Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.
• Day 4-7 year 1831: Former president James Monroe died.
• Day 4-7 year 1845: Writer Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond.
• Day 4-7 year 1862: Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice's Adventures Underground to the Liddell sisters.
• Day 4-7 year 1884: The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris.
• Day 4-7 year 1895: Katharine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.
• Day 4-7 year 1939: Lou Gehrig, stricken with ALS, made his farewell at Yankee Stadium.
• Day 4-7 year 1976: The United States celebrated its bicentennial.
• Day 4-7 year 1997: The U.S. Pathfinder probe landed on Mars.
• Day 4-7 year 2012: The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, announced the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson.