Youtube star Lindsay Artillero

Events in 1991 and 5-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Lindsay Artillero

• 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 Lindsay Artillero (5-6) in history

• Day 5-6 year 1783: Inventors Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier first flew in a hot air balloon they invented successfully.
• Day 5-6 year 1884: Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
• Day 5-6 year 1933: The United States went off the gold standard.
• Day 5-6 year 1947: Sen. George Marshall proposed a plan (Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II.
• Day 5-6 year 1967: The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War began.
• Day 5-6 year 1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day.
• Day 5-6 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control published the first report about the disease that would later become known as AIDS.
• Day 5-6 year 2002: Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home.
• Day 5-6 year 2004: Former president Ronald Reagan died.
• Day 5-6 year 2013: The British newspaper the Guardian published the first of many stories based on leaks by Edward Snowden about the top-secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.