TV actor Lucas Santos

Events in 2000 and 29-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Lucas Santos

• 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 Lucas Santos (29-12) in history

• Day 29-12 year 1170: By order of King Henry II, four magicians had murdered Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Day 29-12 year 1845: Texas became the 28th state in the United States.
• Day 29-12 year 1851: The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) opened in Boston.
• Day 29-12 year 1890: The last major battle of the Indian Wars, at Wounded Knee Creek, took place with hundreds of Indian men, women, and children massacred.
• Day 29-12 year 1937: The Constitution of Ireland, changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect.
• Day 29-12 year 1940: During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London.
• Day 29-12 year 1989: Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.
• Day 29-12 year 1996: A peace agreement was signed, ending 36 years of conflict in Guatemala.