Vine star Malak Watson

Events in 2000 and 26-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Malak Watson

• 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 Malak Watson (26-8) in history

• Day 26-8 year 1847: Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
• Day 26-8 year 1920: The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.
• Day 26-8 year 1939: The first televised major league baseball game was televised: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.
• Day 26-8 year 1974: Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.
• Day 26-8 year 1978: John Paul I became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He died one month later.