Royal Al-Waleed bin Talal

Events in 1955 and 7-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Al-Waleed bin Talal

• Nikolai A. Bulganin becomes Soviet premier, replacing Malenkov (Feb. 8). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Churchill resigns (April 5); Anthony Eden succeeds him (April 6).
• Federal Republic of West Germany becomes a sovereign state (May 5).
• The Soviet Union and seven East European countries sign the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense treaty (May 14).
• Argentina ousts dictator Juan Perón (Sept. 19).
• US starts sending $216 million in aid to Vietnam.
• The US, UK, USSR, and France meet at a summit in Geneva.

Birthday Al-Waleed bin Talal (7-3) in history

• Day 7-3 year 1850: Daniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850.
• Day 7-3 year 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
• Day 7-3 year 1936: Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.
• Day 7-3 year 1945: During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces.
• Day 7-3 year 1965: Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called “Bloody Sunday.”
• Day 7-3 year 2004: V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop.
• Day 7-3 year 2005: John R. Bolton was nominated by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the UN.