TV actor Keenan Tracey

Events in 1991 and 22-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Keenan Tracey

• Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious. Background: The Persian Gulf War
• Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5).
• France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31).
• Communist Government of Albania resigns (June 4).
• Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1).
• Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Yeltsin's stock increases when he takes a prominent role in suppressing an anti-Gorbachev coup by communist hardliners (Aug. 18-22). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR (Aug. 25); US recognizes them (Sept. 2).
• Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). US suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1).
• US indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15).
• Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25). Background: Dissolution of the USSR

Birthday Keenan Tracey (22-7) in history

• Day 22-7 year 1796: Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
• Day 22-7 year 1933: Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world.
• Day 22-7 year 1934: John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
• Day 22-7 year 1937: Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
• Day 22-7 year 1975: Congress restored Confederate general Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
• Day 22-7 year 1990: Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France. A Minnesota native, Lemond was the first American to win the great French cycling race.
• Day 22-7 year 2003: Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.
• Day 22-7 year 2013: Prince George of Cambridge is born. He is the first child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.