Youtube star Fabian Grischkat

Events in 2000 and 8-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Fabian Grischkat

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Fabian Grischkat (8-8) in history

• Day 8-8 year 1588: British naval forces attacked the Armada fleet, permanently crippling the "invincible" Spanish fleet.
• Day 8-8 year 1786: Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat became the first people to climb Mont Blanc.
• Day 8-8 year 1876: Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
• Day 8-8 year 1900: The first Davis Cup tennis tournament began at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.
• Day 8-8 year 1963: In "The Great Train Robbery," some 15 thieves robbed the Glasgow-to-London mail train, making off with more than $6 million in cash.
• Day 8-8 year 1969: Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, and four others were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family."
• Day 8-8 year 1974: President Nixon announced he would resign the following day as a result of the Watergate scandal.
• Day 8-8 year 2008: The Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing, China.