Singer Ramaica Reggae Dexta Daps

Events in 1986 and 12-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Dexta Daps

• Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
• Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
• President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
• Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
• Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
• Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
• World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).

Birthday Dexta Daps (12-1) in history

• Day 12-1 year 1773: The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina
• Day 12-1 year 1896: H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
• Day 12-1 year 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
• Day 12-1 year 1932: Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Day 12-1 year 1964: One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
• Day 12-1 year 1991: A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
• Day 12-1 year 1998: Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
• Day 12-1 year 2010: Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.