Rock singer Amandine Bourgeois

Events in 1979 and 12-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Amandine Bourgeois

• 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 Amandine Bourgeois (12-6) in history

• Day 12-6 year 1880: John Lee Richmond pitched baseball's first perfect game. A perfect game occurs when no batter reaches a base during a complete game of at least nine innings.
• Day 12-6 year 1898: Emilio Aguinaldo, head of the Philippine nationalists, proclaimed independence from Spain.
• Day 12-6 year 1939: The Baseball Hall of Fame opened to the public in Cooperstown, New York.
• Day 12-6 year 1942: Anne Frank received a diary for her birthday.
• Day 12-6 year 1963: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
• Day 12-6 year 1997: Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.