Youtube star Nanne Meijer

Events in 1991 and 4-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Nanne Meijer

• 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 Nanne Meijer (4-5) in history

• Day 4-5 year 1626: Dutch Governor Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for $24 in cloth and brass buttons.
• Day 4-5 year 1886: The Haymarket Square riot broke out as a result of a labor demonstration.
• Day 4-5 year 1932: Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion.
• Day 4-5 year 1959: The first Grammy Awards were held.
• Day 4-5 year 1961: Civil rights activists, called "freedom riders," left Washington, DC for New Orleans.
• Day 4-5 year 1970: Four Kent State University students were shot down by National Guard members during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration.
• Day 4-5 year 1998: The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years for his series of bombings that killed three and injured 23.