Why YouNow Hannah Stone

Events in 2000 and 13-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Hannah Stone

• 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 Hannah Stone (13-11) in history

• Day 13-11 year 1775: U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
• Day 13-11 year 1927: The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey.
• Day 13-11 year 1940: Walt Disney's Fantasia debuted.
• Day 13-11 year 1942: The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
• Day 13-11 year 1946: Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.
• Day 13-11 year 1956: The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.
• Day 13-11 year 1982: The Vietnam War Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC.
• Day 13-11 year 2001: The Taliban abandoned Afghanistan's capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.