World singer Ibtissam Tiskat

Events in 1991 and 3-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Ibtissam Tiskat

• Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious. Background: The Persian Gulf War
• Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5).
• France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31).
• Communist Government of Albania resigns (June 4).
• Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1).
• Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Yeltsin's stock increases when he takes a prominent role in suppressing an anti-Gorbachev coup by communist hardliners (Aug. 18-22). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR (Aug. 25); US recognizes them (Sept. 2).
• Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). US suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1).
• US indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15).
• Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25). Background: Dissolution of the USSR

Birthday Ibtissam Tiskat (3-10) in history

• Day 3-10 year 1226: Saint Francis of Assisi, also known as Saint Francis of Difficulty, was a Roman Catholic monk who founded the Order of Friars Minor (Francis), who had passed away.
• Day 3-10 year 1863: President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
• Day 3-10 year 1922: Rebecca L. Felton became the first woman U.S. Senator when she was appointed to serve out the term of Senator Thomas E. Watson.
• Day 3-10 year 1929: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• Day 3-10 year 1955: Captain Kangaroo and The Mickey Mouse Club premiered on television.
• Day 3-10 year 1974: Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.
• Day 3-10 year 1990: East Germany and West Germany united to become Germany, 45 years after being split into two countries at the end of World War II.