Youtube star Jack Brinkman

Events in 2000 and 25-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Jack Brinkman

• 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 Jack Brinkman (25-6) in history

• Day 25-6 year 1788: Virginia became the 10th state in the Union.
• Day 25-6 year 1876: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
• Day 25-6 year 1950: Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
• Day 25-6 year 1951: The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.
• Day 25-6 year 1991: Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
• Day 25-6 year 1997: Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
• Day 25-6 year 2009: Michael Jackson, lifelong musician, pop singer, and superstar, dies at age 50.