Pop - Singer Morgan Sulele

Events in 1991 and 19-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Morgan Sulele

• 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 Morgan Sulele (19-12) in history

• Day 19-12 year 1732: America's founding father, Benjamin Franklin began publishing the book poor richard's almanack.
• Day 19-12 year 1776: Philosopher Thomas Paine published his first essay on The Crisis in America, in which he wrote, "These are times that test men's souls."
• Day 19-12 year 1843: Writer Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol."
• Day 19-12 year 1946: War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
• Day 19-12 year 1972: Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
• Day 19-12 year 1984: Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
• Day 19-12 year 1998: President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.
• Day 19-12 year 2003: Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.