Youtube star Jack Douglass

Events in 1988 and 30-6

Events in US in the birth year of Jack Douglass

• Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Adviser, pleads guilty in Iran-Contra case (March 11).
• US Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf, mistaking it for jet fighter; 290 killed (July 3).
• Democratic convention nominates Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts for President and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President (July 17 et seq.).
• Republican convention nominates George Bush for President and Indiana Senator Dan Quayle for Vice President (Aug. 15 et seq.).
• Republicans sweep 40 states in election, and Bush beats Dukakis (Nov. 8).

Birthday Jack Douglass (30-6) in history

• Day 30-6 year 1859: French acrobat Charles Blondin, AKA Jean Francois Gravelet, walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• Day 30-6 year 1908: A powerful natural explosion from an unknown cause rocked the Tunguska Basin, in eastern Siberia, flattening hundreds of square miles of forest and resulting in tremors that could be felt hundreds of miles away.
• Day 30-6 year 1921: President Warren G. Harding appointed former president William H. Taft chief justice of the United States.
• Day 30-6 year 1934: Adolf Hitler secured his position in the Nazi party by a "blood purge," ridding the party of other leaders such as Ernst Roehm and Kurt von Schleicher.
• Day 30-6 year 1936: Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published.
• Day 30-6 year 1971: The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was ratified by the states.
• Day 30-6 year 1998: The remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.