TV actor Brendan Coyle

Events in 1963 and 2-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Brendan Coyle

• France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict (Jan. 22).
• Pope John XXIII dies (June 3), and is succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.
• British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns in the wake of an affair with Christine Keeler, a teenage showgirl who was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché (June).
• Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war (Aug. 30). Background: cold war
• Kenya achieves independence.
• There are 15,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War
• 32 independent African nations establish the Organization for African Unity.

Birthday Brendan Coyle (2-12) in history

• Day 2-12 year 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris.
• Day 2-12 year 1823: President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
• Day 2-12 year 1859: Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry.
• Day 2-12 year 1942: The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago.
• Day 2-12 year 1954: The Senate voted to condemn Republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
• Day 2-12 year 1970: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established.
• Day 2-12 year 1982: Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation.
• Day 2-12 year 1988: Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head an Muslim nation.
• Day 2-12 year 1990: Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.
• Day 2-12 year 1999: A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland.
• Day 2-12 year 2001: Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for bankruptcy.