Youtube star Loulou Vitt

Events in 2003 and 4-4

Events in US in the birth year of Loulou Vitt

• Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts (Feb. 1).
• Bush signs ten-year, $350-billion tax cut package, the third-largest tax cut in U.S. history (May 28).
• In one of the most important rulings on the issue of affirmative action in twenty-five years-the Supreme Court decisively upholds the right of affirmative action in higher education (June 23).
• Investigation into the loss of space shuttle Columbia cites egregious organizational problems at NASA (Aug. 25).
• Congressional Budget Office predicts federal deficit of $480 billion in 2004 and $5.8 trillion by 2013 (Aug. 26).
• California governor Gray Davis ousted in recall vote; actor Arnold Schwarzenegger elected in his place (Oct. 7).
• President Bush signs $87.5 billion emergency package for post-war Iraq reconstruction; this supplements $79 billion approved in April. (Nov. 5).
• John A. Muhammad, convicted in the 2002 Washington, DC, area shootings, receives death sentence (Nov. 24).
• President Bush eliminates steel tariffs after WTO says U.S. violated trade laws (Dec. 4).

Birthday Loulou Vitt (4-4) in history

• Day 4-4 year 1818: Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
• Day 4-4 year 1841: President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
• Day 4-4 year 1905: Earthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.
• Day 4-4 year 1945: The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
• Day 4-4 year 1949: The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
• Day 4-4 year 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
• Day 4-4 year 1973: The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
• Day 4-4 year 1979: Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
• Day 4-4 year 1981: Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.
• Day 4-4 year 1983: Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.