Vine star Jamie Corbett

Events in 1998 and 3-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Jamie Corbett

• Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (March 5 et seq.). Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels (June 1). NATO, on verge of air strikes, reaches settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo (Oct. 12).
• Good Friday Accord is reached in Northern Ireland (April 10). Irish Parliament backs peace agreement (April 22). Background: N. Ireland Peace Negotiations
• Europeans agree on single currency, the euro (May 3).
• India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval (May 11, 13). Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response (May 29, 30).
• Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power (May 21).
• Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors (Aug. 5). Clinton orders air strikes (Dec. 16–19).
• US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed (Aug. 7). US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan (Aug. 20).
• Russia fights to avert financial collapse (Aug. 17).
• Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London (Oct. 16).
• Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward (Oct. 23). Background: Middle East Peace Negotiations

Birthday Jamie Corbett (3-9) in history

• Day 3-9 year 1189: At London's Westminster Abbey. Richard I, nicknamed "The One with Lion's Heart," is crowned King of England.
• Day 3-9 year 1658: Lord of England Oliver Cromwell passed away at Whitehall Palace, London.
• Day 3-9 year 1783: The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
• Day 3-9 year 1939: Great Britain and France declared war on Germany during World War II.
• Day 3-9 year 1967: Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam.
• Day 3-9 year 1974: Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.
• Day 3-9 year 1976: The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.
• Day 3-9 year 1978: Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.