Track and field athlete Daniel Caines

Events in 1979 and 15-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Daniel Caines

• 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 Daniel Caines (15-5) in history

• Day 15-5 year 1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.
• Day 15-5 year 1911: The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Day 15-5 year 1918: The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.
• Day 15-5 year 1930: On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
• Day 15-5 year 1940: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
• Day 15-5 year 1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.
• Day 15-5 year 1988: The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.