Youtube star Joshua Wood-Stacey

Events in 2000 and 2-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Joshua Wood-Stacey

• 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 Joshua Wood-Stacey (2-4) in history

• Day 2-4 year 1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first set foot on the Florida land he named.
• Day 2-4 year 1792: Congress authorized the first U.S. mint, in Philadelphia.
• Day 2-4 year 1865: Confederate president Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
• Day 2-4 year 1870: Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for president of the United States.
• Day 2-4 year 1917: President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany.
• Day 2-4 year 1932: Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
• Day 2-4 year 1982: Argentina seized the Falkland Islands from Britain
• Day 2-4 year 2005: Pope John Paul II died.