Youtube star Alonzo Lerone

Events in 1990 and 7-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Alonzo Lerone

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Alonzo Lerone (7-3) in history

• Day 7-3 year 1850: Daniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850.
• Day 7-3 year 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
• Day 7-3 year 1936: Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.
• Day 7-3 year 1945: During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces.
• Day 7-3 year 1965: Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called “Bloody Sunday.”
• Day 7-3 year 2004: V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop.
• Day 7-3 year 2005: John R. Bolton was nominated by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the UN.