TV actress Cote de Pablo

Events in 1979 and 12-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Cote de Pablo

• 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 Cote de Pablo (12-11) in history

• Day 12-11 year 1920: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.
• Day 12-11 year 1927: Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.
• Day 12-11 year 1942: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal begins.
• Day 12-11 year 1954: Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
• Day 12-11 year 1970: A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing over 200,000 people.
• Day 12-11 year 1981: The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.
• Day 12-11 year 1990: Akihito becomes emperor of Japan.
• Day 12-11 year 1997: Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.