TV actor Frankie Jonas

Events in 2000 and 28-9

Events in US in the birth year of Frankie Jonas

• Wary investors bring stock plunge; beginning of the end of the Internet stock boom (Feb. 25).
• Cuban boy Elián González, 6, at center of international dispute, reunited with his father after federal raid of Miami relatives' home (April 22).
• U.S. presidential election closest in decades; Bush's slim lead in Florida leads to automatic recount in that state (Nov. 7-8). Republicans file federal suit to block manual recount of Florida presidential election ballots sought by Democrats (Nov. 11). Florida Supreme Court rules election hand count may continue (Nov. 21). U.S. Supreme Court orders halt to manual recount of Florida votes (Dec. 9). Supreme Court seals Bush victory by 5-4; rules there can be no further recounting (Dec. 12). See 2000 election chronology.
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Frankie Jonas (28-9) in history

• Day 28-9 year 1542: The famous explorer with dual Portuguese and Spanish citizenship, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, landed in what is now San Diego.
• Day 28-9 year 1781: The "American Revolution" campaign ended in Yorktown Heights, Virginia.
• Day 28-9 year 1920: Eight Chicago White Sox players were indicted for fixing the 1919 World Series in the "Black Sox scandal."
• Day 28-9 year 1924: Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle after completing the first round-the-world-flight in 175 days.
• Day 28-9 year 1939: A German-Soviet agreement divided Poland between Nazi Germany and the USSR.
• Day 28-9 year 1967: Walter Washington became the first mayor of the District of Columbia.
• Day 28-9 year 1972: Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
• Day 28-9 year 1989: Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii.
• Day 28-9 year 1991: Jazz great Miles Davis died.
• Day 28-9 year 2003: Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis player to win at Wimbledon, died.