Youtube star Edwin Costa

Events in 1989 and 2-7

Events in US in the birth year of Edwin Costa

• George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st US President (Jan. 20).
• Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound (March 24).
• US jury convicts Oliver North in Iran-Contra affair (May 4).
• Army Gen. Colin R. Powell is first black Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (Aug. 9).
• A San Francisco Bay area earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude, killed 67 and injured over 3,000. Over 100,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. (Oct. 17)

Birthday Edwin Costa (2-7) in history

• Day 2-7 year 1566: French astrologer, physician and author of the book "Prophecies" Nostradamus passed away in Salon-de-Provence.
• Day 2-7 year 1881: President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau; he died on Sept. 19.
• Day 2-7 year 1890: Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Day 2-7 year 1937: Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.
• Day 2-7 year 1964: President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
• Day 2-7 year 1976: In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
• Day 2-7 year 1997: Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
• Day 2-7 year 2002: Steve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.