Youtube star Clare Siobhan Callery

Events in 1986 and 6-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Clare Siobhan Callery

• Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
• Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
• President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
• Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
• Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
• Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
• World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).

Birthday Clare Siobhan Callery (6-8) in history

• Day 6-8 year 1806: Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Roman Empire.
• Day 6-8 year 1825: Bolivia declared its independence from Peru.
• Day 6-8 year 1926: Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
• Day 6-8 year 1945: The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
• Day 6-8 year 1962: Jamaica gained its independence within the Britain Commonwealth.
• Day 6-8 year 1965: President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted black voter registration in the South.
• Day 6-8 year 1997: British prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet—the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
• Day 6-8 year 2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
• Day 6-8 year 2012: Curiosity, a SUV-size rover, successfully landed on Mars. The rover's research has been planned for the next two years, but since Curiosity's electricity is powered by plutonium, it could be operational and provide insight into Mars for decades to come