TV actor Adam Zdrojkowski

Events in 2000 and 29-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Adam Zdrojkowski

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Adam Zdrojkowski (29-5) in history

• Day 29-5 year 1765: Attorney Patrick Henry bitterly denounced the Stamp Act at the Virginia House of Burgesses.
• Day 29-5 year 1790: Rhode Island became the 13th state in the United States, the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
• Day 29-5 year 1848: Wisconsin became the 30th state in the United States.
• Day 29-5 year 1917: John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.
• Day 29-5 year 1942: Bing Crosby recorded his version of “White Christmas.” It would go on to sell over 30 million copies.
• Day 29-5 year 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• Day 29-5 year 1990: Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the parliament.