Reality star Sandra Martin

Events in 1962 and 4-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Sandra Martin

• France transfers sovereignty to new republic of Algeria (July 3).
• Cuban Missile Crisis: USSR to build missile bases in Cuba; Kennedy orders Cuban blockade, lifts blockade after Russia backs down (Aug.-Nov.).
• Pope John XXIII opens Second Vatican Council (Oct. 11).
• Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners of 1961 invasion attempt (Dec. 24).
• Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago become independent.

Birthday Sandra Martin (4-2) in history

• Day 4-2 year 1783: England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.
• Day 4-2 year 1787: The Massachusetts peasant's revolt, Shays, was defeated.
• Day 4-2 year 1789: George Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.
• Day 4-2 year 1861: Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
• Day 4-2 year 1945: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.
• Day 4-2 year 1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.
• Day 4-2 year 1969: The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• Day 4-2 year 1974: Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• Day 4-2 year 1976: Benjamin Britten, British composer, died.
• Day 4-2 year 2003: The country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.
• Day 4-2 year 2004: The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry.