Singer Mai Phuong Dung

Events in 1990 and 13-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Mai Phuong Dung

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Mai Phuong Dung (13-5) in history

• Day 13-5 year 1568: Queen Mary of the Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to Northern England.
• Day 13-5 year 1846: The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.
• Day 13-5 year 1938: Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans's jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
• Day 13-5 year 1940: Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
• Day 13-5 year 1973: Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.
• Day 13-5 year 1981: Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.