TV actress Carlota Garcia

Events in 2000 and 19-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Carlota Garcia

• 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 Carlota Garcia (19-2) in history

• Day 19-2 year 1674:
  The Netherlands and Great Britain signed the Westminster Peace Treaty, under which New Amsterdam was to be transferred to Britain (renamed New York).
• Day 19-2 year 1807: Aaron Burr, vice president under Thomas Jefferson, was arrested for treason. He was later acquitted.
• Day 19-2 year 1878: Thomas Edison patented the gramophone (phonograph).
• Day 19-2 year 1942: President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order that resulted in the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast.
• Day 19-2 year 1945: The U.S. Marines went ashore at Iwo Jima.
• Day 19-2 year 1959: Britain, Turkey, and Greece signed the agreement granting Cyprus independence.
• Day 19-2 year 1968: The first nationwide broadcast of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood aired on PBS.
• Day 19-2 year 1997: Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader, died.
• Day 19-2 year 2008: Fidel Castro resigned as President of Cuba after 49 years in power. Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother, succeeded him as president.