Wizard Guy Bavli

Events in 1971 and 1-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Guy Bavli

• A military junta led by Major General Idi Amin siezes power in Uganda (Jan. 25).
• Mao Zedong invites the US ping-pong team to visit Beijing (Apr. 6).
• Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China. (Apr. 14).
• Erich Honecker assumes leadership of the East German Communist Party after Walter Ulbricht's resignation (May).
• India and the USSR sign a 20-year friendship pact (Aug. 9).
• President Mobutu renames the Democratic Republic of Congo, establishing Zaire (Oct. 27).

Birthday Guy Bavli (1-5) in history

• Day 1-5 year 1707: The date of the Act of Confederation allowed the merger of England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.
• Day 1-5 year 1931: The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. Click to see the current tallest.
• Day 1-5 year 1941: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.
• Day 1-5 year 1948: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.
• Day 1-5 year 1960: The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory.
• Day 1-5 year 1967: Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)
• Day 1-5 year 1991: 44-year-old Texas fireballer Nolan Ryan hurled his seventh and final no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. That same day, Oakland's Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record.
• Day 1-5 year 2003: President Bush made a speech aboard an aircraft carrier proclaiming “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
• Day 1-5 year 2009: For the first time in 341 years, a woman is appointed as poet laureate of the United Kingdom. Carol Ann Duffy, 53, will take over the post from current poet laureate Andrew Motion.