Radio program host Lynsey Hipgrave

Events in 1979 and 6-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Lynsey Hipgrave

• Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
• Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
• Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
• Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
• Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Lynsey Hipgrave (6-9) in history

• Day 6-9 year 1901: President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley died on September 14th.
• Day 6-9 year 1941: Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
• Day 6-9 year 1995: Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., broke Lou Gehrig's iron man record by playing in his 2,131st straight game.
• Day 6-9 year 1997: More than 2 billion people watched Princess Diana's funeral on TV.
• Day 6-9 year 1998: Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa died in Tokyo at age 88.
• Day 6-9 year 2007: Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.