TV actress Angelu De Leon

Events in 1979 and 22-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Angelu De Leon

• 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 Angelu De Leon (22-8) in history

• Day 22-8 year 1642: The English Civil War began between supporters of King Charles I and supporters of politician Oliver Cromwell.
• Day 22-8 year 1775: King George III declared the American colonies in open rebellion.
• Day 22-8 year 1846: The United States annexed New Mexico.
• Day 22-8 year 1851: The U.S. yacht America outraced the British Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
• Day 22-8 year 1902: Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States president to ride in an automobile.
• Day 22-8 year 1910: Korea was annexed by Japan after five years as a protectorate.
• Day 22-8 year 1989: Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.
• Day 22-8 year 2003: Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for refusing to move a Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse.
• Day 22-8 year 2004: A version of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen in Norway. Another version had been stolen in 1994.