World singer Diana Reyes

Events in 1979 and 18-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Diana Reyes

• Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
• Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
• Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
• Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
• Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Diana Reyes (18-11) in history

• Day 18-11 year 1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.
• Day 18-11 year 1883: Standard time began in the United States.
• Day 18-11 year 1886: Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States (1881–1885), died in New York at 56.
• Day 18-11 year 1928: Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.
• Day 18-11 year 1976: Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
• Day 18-11 year 1978: Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot.
• Day 18-11 year 2003: The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.
• Day 18-11 year 2004: The UN Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi. This was the first time it had convened outside of New York headquarters.