Youtube star Amy Nicola

Events in 1990 and 15-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Amy Nicola

• 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 Amy Nicola (15-7) in history

• Day 15-7 year 1869: Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
• Day 15-7 year 1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
• Day 15-7 year 1918: The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
• Day 15-7 year 1940: The world's tallest man (8 feet, 11.1 inches), Robert Wadlow, died.
• Day 15-7 year 1948: John J. Pershing, whose leadership in World War I earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died in Washington, DC.
• Day 15-7 year 1975: The Russian Soyuz and the U.S. Apollo launched. The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.
• Day 15-7 year 2010: After 86 days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and several previous attempts to contain the flow, BP caps its leaking oil well.