Youtube star Marianna Hewitt

Events in 1986 and 10-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Marianna Hewitt

• Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
• Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
• President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
• Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
• Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
• Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
• World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).

Birthday Marianna Hewitt (10-10) in history

• Day 10-10 year 1845: The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland
• Day 10-10 year 1886: The tuxedo dinner jacket made its debut at a ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
• Day 10-10 year 1911: Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrew the Manchu dynasty in China.
• Day 10-10 year 1935: George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess debuted on Broadway.
• Day 10-10 year 1943: Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
• Day 10-10 year 1970: Fiji gained its independence from Great Britain.
• Day 10-10 year 1973: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
• Day 10-10 year 1985: Actor and director Orson Welles died in Hollywood at age 70.
• Day 10-10 year 2001: California representative Nancy Pelosi became minority whip.
• Day 10-10 year 2002: The US Congress gave President Bush authorization to use military force against Iraq.