Youtube star Emma Bosse

Events in 1991 and 15-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Emma Bosse

• 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 Emma Bosse (15-4) in history

• Day 15-4 year 1755: Writer Samuel Johnson has published his book The English Dictionary.
• Day 15-4 year 1817: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Conn.
• Day 15-4 year 1861: In response to the attack on Fort Sumter three days earlier, President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops.
• Day 15-4 year 1912: Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after it struck an iceberg.
• Day 15-4 year 1920: A paymaster and guard were murdered in Braintree, Mass. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the crime.
• Day 15-4 year 1945: Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was liberated by Canadian and British forces.
• Day 15-4 year 1947: Jackie Robinson made his Brooklyn Dodger debut and scored the game-winning run. On April 15, 1997, his number, 42, was retired.
• Day 15-4 year 1955: Ray Kroc acquired McDonald's and opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Ill., today the official McDonald’s Corporate Museum.
• Day 15-4 year 1996: The 100th Boston Marathon was won by Moses Tanui of Kenya.
• Day 15-4 year 1998: Cambodian despot Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, died.
• Day 15-4 year 2013: Two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3 and injuring at least 170 others.
• Day 15-4 year 2019: At 6:40 p.m., a large fire broke out on the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, causing extensive damage to the church.