Pop - Singer Molly Rainford

Events in 2000 and 22-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Molly Rainford

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Molly Rainford (22-11) in history

• Day 22-11 year 1497: The famous Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the "Cape of Good Hope" to search for a sea route to India.
• Day 22-11 year 1718: The notorious pirate Edward Teach, also known as the Blackbeard Pirate, was killed off the coast of Ocracoke, North Carolina, USA.
• Day 22-11 year 1842: Volcano St. Helens in Washington state erupts. Ash flies up to 48 km.
• Day 22-11 year 1906: "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
• Day 22-11 year 1943: President Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan.
• Day 22-11 year 1963: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.
• Day 22-11 year 1990: Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.