Stage actor Tolga Saritas

Events in 1991 and 30-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Tolga Saritas

• Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious. Background: The Persian Gulf War
• Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5).
• France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31).
• Communist Government of Albania resigns (June 4).
• Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1).
• Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Yeltsin's stock increases when he takes a prominent role in suppressing an anti-Gorbachev coup by communist hardliners (Aug. 18-22). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR (Aug. 25); US recognizes them (Sept. 2).
• Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). US suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1).
• US indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15).
• Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25). Background: Dissolution of the USSR

Birthday Tolga Saritas (30-5) in history

• Day 30-5 year 1431: The divine heroine of the Arc, Joan, was burned to death as a heretic in Rouen, France.
• Day 30-5 year 1536: Eleven days after beheading his second wife, King Henry VIII married his third wife, Jane Seymour.
• Day 30-5 year 1911: The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun.
• Day 30-5 year 1922: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
• Day 30-5 year 1998: An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300.