TV actor Max Lloyd-Jones

Events in 1991 and 26-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Max Lloyd-Jones

• 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 Max Lloyd-Jones (26-2) in history

• Day 26-2 year 1815: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba.
• Day 26-2 year 1870: A 312-ft long pneumatic subway was opened in New York City; funding for a larger version never materialized.
• Day 26-2 year 1901: Leaders of the Boxer Uprising in China, Chi-hsui and Hsu Cheng-yu, were beheaded.
• Day 26-2 year 1919: Grand Canyon National Park was established.
• Day 26-2 year 1935: RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.
• Day 26-2 year 1993: A bomb exploded at the World Trade Center in New York. The blast killed six people and injured more than 1,000.