Singer Nhat Thien Bao

Events in 1979 and 8-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Nhat Thien Bao

• 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 Nhat Thien Bao (8-1) in history

• Day 8-1 year 1815: The date of the Battle of New Orleans was the last battle of the War of 1812 between Great Britain and America.
• Day 8-1 year 1918: Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.
• Day 8-1 year 1958: Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
• Day 8-1 year 1959: Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.
• Day 8-1 year 1964: President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
• Day 8-1 year 1982: The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."
• Day 8-1 year 1998: The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.
• Day 8-1 year 2011: Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.