Radio program host Charlton Booker

Events in 1971 and 3-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Charlton Booker

• A military junta led by Major General Idi Amin siezes power in Uganda (Jan. 25).
• Mao Zedong invites the US ping-pong team to visit Beijing (Apr. 6).
• Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China. (Apr. 14).
• Erich Honecker assumes leadership of the East German Communist Party after Walter Ulbricht's resignation (May).
• India and the USSR sign a 20-year friendship pact (Aug. 9).
• President Mobutu renames the Democratic Republic of Congo, establishing Zaire (Oct. 27).

Birthday Charlton Booker (3-3) in history

• Day 3-3 year 1845: Florida became the 27th state in the United States.
• Day 3-3 year 1875: Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuted in Paris, to cool audience reception and panned by critics.
• Day 3-3 year 1879: Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States.
• Day 3-3 year 1918: Germany, Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
• Day 3-3 year 1931: The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.
• Day 3-3 year 1991: Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape.
• Day 3-3 year 2000: Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges.
• Day 3-3 year 2003: New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.