Reality star Lucy Watson

Events in 1991 and 20-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Lucy Watson

• 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 Lucy Watson (20-2) in history

• Day 20-2 year 1792: President George Washington signed the Post Office Act, establishing a permanent Post Office Department.
• Day 20-2 year 1809: The Supreme Court ruled that the power of the federal government of the United States would be greater than that of any state.
• Day 20-2 year 1895: Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, author, and orator, died.
• Day 20-2 year 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.
• Day 20-2 year 1998: Tara Lipinski won the Olympic figure skating gold medal.
• Day 20-2 year 2003: A fire in a nightclub in Warwick, R.I., killed 100 and injured over 150.