Singer Son Ngoc Minh

Events in 1990 and 10-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Son Ngoc Minh

• 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 Son Ngoc Minh (10-3) in history

• Day 10-3 year 1629: King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament to prevent an annual reassessment of the King's revenues.
• Day 10-3 year 1785: The founder of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was appointed Minister of France.
• Day 10-3 year 1848: Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
• Day 10-3 year 1864: U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
• Day 10-3 year 1876: The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• Day 10-3 year 1948: The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
• Day 10-3 year 1969: James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.