TV actor Ji Jin-hee

Events in 1971 and 24-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Ji Jin-hee

• A military junta led by Major General Idi Amin siezes power in Uganda (Jan. 25).
• Mao Zedong invites the US ping-pong team to visit Beijing (Apr. 6).
• Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China. (Apr. 14).
• Erich Honecker assumes leadership of the East German Communist Party after Walter Ulbricht's resignation (May).
• India and the USSR sign a 20-year friendship pact (Aug. 9).
• President Mobutu renames the Democratic Republic of Congo, establishing Zaire (Oct. 27).

Birthday Ji Jin-hee (24-6) in history

• Day 24-6 year 1509: Henry VIII is officially crowned king of England.
• Day 24-6 year 1647: Early American feminist Margaret Brent requested a seat and vote in the Maryland Congress but was removed from that body.
• Day 24-6 year 1675: The day of the deadliest war commanded by King Philip between the colonists and the Indians began with the Indians attacking the settlement of Swansea (Mass).
• Day 24-6 year 1908: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.
• Day 24-6 year 1947: Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
• Day 24-6 year 1948: The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
• Day 24-6 year 1997: The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
• Day 24-6 year 2011: New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
• Day 24-6 year 2012: Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.