TV actress Maeve Tomalty

Events in 2000 and 27-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Maeve Tomalty

• 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 Maeve Tomalty (27-5) in history

• Day 27-5 year 1647: Alice Young was hanged for witchcraft in the thirteen American colonies. It was the first recorded witch execution in the United States.
• Day 27-5 year 1703: Tsar Peter, the Great of Russia, founded the city of Petersburg.
• Day 27-5 year 1936: The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.
• Day 27-5 year 1937: Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.
• Day 27-5 year 1941: British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.
• Day 27-5 year 1994: Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.
• Day 27-5 year 1996: After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.
• Day 27-5 year 1999: Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.