TV actress Lily Loveless

Events in 1990 and 16-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Lily Loveless

• 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 Lily Loveless (16-4) in history

• Day 16-4 year 1746: The revolt that restored the senior line of the House of Stuart to the English Jacobite throne ended when the Duke of Cumberland defeated Charles "Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart.
• Day 16-4 year 1912: Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
• Day 16-4 year 1917: Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.
• Day 16-4 year 1947: Financier Bernard Baruch coined the term “cold war” in a speech in South Carolina.
• Day 16-4 year 1972: China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.
• Day 16-4 year 1999: Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement.
• Day 16-4 year 2007: A male student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded.