World singer Sophia Abrahao

Events in 1991 and 22-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Sophia Abrahao

• 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 Sophia Abrahao (22-5) in history

• Day 22-5 year 1455: The opening day of the 30-year War of the Roses in St. Albans.
• Day 22-5 year 1761: The first life insurance policy in the United States was signed and issued in Philadelphia.
• Day 22-5 year 1849: Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.
• Day 22-5 year 1927: An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 claimed approximately 200,000 victims.
• Day 22-5 year 1947: Harry S. Truman's Doctrine brought aid to Greece and Turkey to combat the spread of Communism.
• Day 22-5 year 1972: Ceylon became Sri Lanka.
• Day 22-5 year 1990: North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
• Day 22-5 year 1992: Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show.
• Day 22-5 year 2003: The UN Security Council approved a resolution lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq and supporting the U.S.-led administration in Iraq.
• Day 22-5 year 2011: At least 140 people are killed and hundreds more injured as a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado hits Joplin, Missouri. The tornado is among the deadliest in the nation's history, destroying nearly a third of the city and damaging about 2,000 buildings, including water treatment and sewage plants.
• Day 22-5 year 2012: Tokyo Skytree, which at 634 meters high is the tallest tower in the world, opened to the public.