TV actor Jamie Flatters

Events in 2000 and 7-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Jamie Flatters

• 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 Jamie Flatters (7-7) in history

• Day 7-7 year 1456: Twenty-five years after the execution of the French heroine "Joan of Arc", Pope Calixtus III announced the drop of the charges of heresy against her.
• Day 7-7 year 1797: William Blount of Tennessee became the first U.S. senator to be impeached.
• Day 7-7 year 1846: Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey and declared California annexed to the United States.
• Day 7-7 year 1898: The United States annexed Hawaii.
• Day 7-7 year 1946: Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized, becoming the first American saint.
• Day 7-7 year 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor for the Supreme Court.
• Day 7-7 year 2005: 52 people were killed and hundreds injured in London when terrorists bombed subways and a bus.