TV show host Caroline Flack

Events in 1979 and 9-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Caroline Flack

• 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 Caroline Flack (9-11) in history

• Day 9-11 year 1888: Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly.
• Day 9-11 year 1938: Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night—referring to broken glass on streets).
• Day 9-11 year 1953: Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.
• Day 9-11 year 1965: A switch at a station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada went dark for more than 13 hours.
• Day 9-11 year 1970: Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
• Day 9-11 year 1989: Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day.