TV actor Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Events in 1990 and 4-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Jean-Luc Bilodeau

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Jean-Luc Bilodeau (4-11) in history

• Day 4-11 year 1842: Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, , Illinois
• Day 4-11 year 1880: James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register.
• Day 4-11 year 1922: Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.
• Day 4-11 year 1924: Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor, to serve out the term of her husband who died in office.
• Day 4-11 year 1956: Russian troops attacked Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolt under Premier Imre Nagy.
• Day 4-11 year 1979: The American embassy in Tehran, Iran, was seized by militants and 90 Americans were taken hostage.
• Day 4-11 year 1995: Israeli Prime Minister, and Nobel Laureate, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli.
• Day 4-11 year 2008: Democratic senator Barack Obama wins the presidential election against Sen. John McCain, taking 338 electoral votes to McCain's 161. Obama makes history as the first African American U.S. president.