TV actress Abby Mavers

Events in 1990 and 20-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Abby Mavers

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Abby Mavers (20-4) in history

• Day 20-4 year 1769: Chief Pontiac is murdered.
• Day 20-4 year 1841: The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.
• Day 20-4 year 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium.
• Day 20-4 year 1912: The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6.
• Day 20-4 year 1971: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.
• Day 20-4 year 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including the shooters) and 1 teacher were killed; 23 others were wounded.
• Day 20-4 year 2008: Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar race.
• Day 20-4 year 2010: An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.