TV show host Pearl Thusi

Events in 1988 and 13-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Pearl Thusi

• US and Canada reach free trade agreement (Jan. 2). Background: NAFTA
• Terrorists kill nine tourists on Aegean cruise (July 11).
• Benazir Bhutto, first Islamic woman prime minister, chosen to lead Pakistan (Dec. 1).
• Pan-Am 747 explodes from terrorist bomb and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on ground (Dec. 21).

Birthday Pearl Thusi (13-5) in history

• Day 13-5 year 1568: Queen Mary of the Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to Northern England.
• Day 13-5 year 1846: The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.
• Day 13-5 year 1938: Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans's jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
• Day 13-5 year 1940: Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
• Day 13-5 year 1973: Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.
• Day 13-5 year 1981: Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.