TV actress Jenna Ushkowitz

Events in 1986 and 28-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Jenna Ushkowitz

• Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
• Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
• President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
• Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
• Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
• Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
• World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).

Birthday Jenna Ushkowitz (28-4) in history

• Day 28-4 year 1788: Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.
• Day 28-4 year 1789: Sailor Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
• Day 28-4 year 1945: Benito Mussolini was executed.
• Day 28-4 year 1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.
• Day 28-4 year 1967: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.
• Day 28-4 year 1992: The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”
• Day 28-4 year 2001: Dennis Tito became the first space tourist.
• Day 28-4 year 2004: The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's 60 Minutes II.