TV actor Juan David Restrepo

Events in 1979 and 10-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Juan David Restrepo

• Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
• Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
• Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
• Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
• Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Juan David Restrepo (10-12) in history

• Day 10-12 year 1817: Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
• Day 10-12 year 1869: The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
• Day 10-12 year 1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
• Day 10-12 year 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
• Day 10-12 year 1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1999: Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
• Day 10-12 year 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.