Stylist Le Minh Ngoc

Events in 1986 and 4-4

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

• 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 Le Minh Ngoc (4-4) in history

• Day 4-4 year 1818: Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
• Day 4-4 year 1841: President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
• Day 4-4 year 1905: Earthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.
• Day 4-4 year 1945: The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
• Day 4-4 year 1949: The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
• Day 4-4 year 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
• Day 4-4 year 1973: The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
• Day 4-4 year 1979: Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
• Day 4-4 year 1981: Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.
• Day 4-4 year 1983: Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.