Youtube star Josh Brice

Events in 2000 and 2-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Josh Brice

• 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 Josh Brice (2-12) in history

• Day 2-12 year 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris.
• Day 2-12 year 1823: President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
• Day 2-12 year 1859: Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry.
• Day 2-12 year 1942: The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago.
• Day 2-12 year 1954: The Senate voted to condemn Republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
• Day 2-12 year 1970: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established.
• Day 2-12 year 1982: Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation.
• Day 2-12 year 1988: Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head an Muslim nation.
• Day 2-12 year 1990: Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.
• Day 2-12 year 1999: A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland.
• Day 2-12 year 2001: Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for bankruptcy.