Youtube star Lauren Benet

Events in 1991 and 3-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Lauren Benet

• Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious. Background: The Persian Gulf War
• Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5).
• France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31).
• Communist Government of Albania resigns (June 4).
• Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1).
• Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Yeltsin's stock increases when he takes a prominent role in suppressing an anti-Gorbachev coup by communist hardliners (Aug. 18-22). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR (Aug. 25); US recognizes them (Sept. 2).
• Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). US suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1).
• US indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15).
• Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25). Background: Dissolution of the USSR

Birthday Lauren Benet (3-12) in history

• Day 3-12 year 1818: Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
• Day 3-12 year 1833: Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
• Day 3-12 year 1910: Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
• Day 3-12 year 1919: French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
• Day 3-12 year 1967: Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
• Day 3-12 year 1984: A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.