Youtube star Jamie Perkins

Events in 1990 and 12-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Jamie Perkins

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Jamie Perkins (12-5) in history

• Day 12-5 year 1870: Manitoba became a province of Canada.
• Day 12-5 year 1932: The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's kidnapped baby was found.
• Day 12-5 year 1937: Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
• Day 12-5 year 1943: Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
• Day 12-5 year 1949: The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended.
• Day 12-5 year 1970: Harry A. Blackmun was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
• Day 12-5 year 2002: Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba.
• Day 12-5 year 2008: An estimated 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China and as many as 68,000 people were killed.
• Day 12-5 year 2012: The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea.