World leader Park Chung-hee

Events in 1917 and 14-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Park Chung-hee

• First U.S. combat troops arrive in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Background: World War I
• Third Battle of Ypres is fought. Background: World War I
• World-wide influenza pandemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. Background: Major U.S. Epidemics
• Dutch dancer Mata Hari is convicted and executed as a German spy.
• Government offices are seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace is stormed in Russian October Revolution.

Birthday Park Chung-hee (14-11) in history

• Day 14-11 year 1851: Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick has been published.
• Day 14-11 year 1889: Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.
• Day 14-11 year 1922: The British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.
• Day 14-11 year 1969: Apollo 12, the second manned lunar expedition, was launched.
• Day 14-11 year 1995: The U.S. federal government began a partial shut down of government services after the U.S. Congress could not pass a budget.
• Day 14-11 year 2002: Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in Congress.
• Day 14-11 year 2003: The most distant object ever found in our solar system, named Sedna, was discovered by astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory.