Why YouNow Kevin Bojorquez

Events in 1999 and 3-9

Events in US in the birth year of Kevin Bojorquez

• US Senate opens impeachment trial of President Clinton (Jan. 7); Senate acquits Clinton and rejects censure move (Feb. 12). Background: A Short History of Impeachment.
• John William King, 24, a white supremacist, is convicted of murder and sentenced to death in case involving the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd, Jr. (Feb 23).
• Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, storm Columbine High School in Littleton , CO, killing twelve other students and a teacher, then themselves (April 20). Background: A Timeline of School Shootings and 1999 in Review.
• John F. Kennedy Jr., wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren G. Bessette are lost at sea when a plane he was piloting disappears near Martha's Vineyard, off Mass. coast (July 16). Background: John F. Kennedy, Jr. Remembered and Timeline of Kennedy tragedies.
• See also: 1999 Year in Review: News of the Nation

Birthday Kevin Bojorquez (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.