Youtube star Paul Silve

Events in 1999 and 25-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Paul Silve

• Russian president Boris Yeltsin survives impeachment hearings (May), reshuffles his cabinet twice (May, Aug.), and takes military action against Islamic separatists in Dagestan and Chechnya. Background: 1999 in Review.
• Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down (June 16), and Thabo Mbeki takes over.
• War erupts in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic clamps down on the province, massacring and deporting ethnic Albanians. NATO begins Operation Allied Force on March 24, 1999, launching air strikes against Belgrade for 78 consecutive days until Milosevic relents. Background: Timeline: The Splintering of Kosovo and Timeline: NATO in Kosovo.
• Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,600 and leaves 600,000 homeless in Turkey (Aug. 17).
• East Timor population votes for independence from Indonesia (Aug. 30, 1999), which causes pro-Indonesian forces to massacre and uproot thousands of East Timorese.
• Pakistani government is overthrown in the midst of economic strife and intensified fighting with India over Kashmir (Oct. 12). Background: 1999 in Review.
• The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon.
• See also: 1999 Year in Review: News of the World

Birthday Paul Silve (25-3) in history

• Day 25-3 year 1634: Settlers sent by the late Lord Baltimore founded the state of Maryland, USA.
• Day 25-3 year 1894: Jacob Sechler Coxey and his "army" of unemployed men began their march from Ohio to Washington, DC.
• Day 25-3 year 1911: A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York City killed 145 workers.
• Day 25-3 year 1931: The Scottsboro boys were arrested in Alabama.
• Day 25-3 year 1934: Horton Smith won the first Masters golf tournament at Augusta National in Georgia.
• Day 25-3 year 1957: The European Economic Community was established by the Treaty of Rome.
• Day 25-3 year 1965: The 25,000-person Alabama Freedom March to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks, led by Martin Luther King Jr., ended its journey from Selma on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
• Day 25-3 year 1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew.
• Day 25-3 year 1994: U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia.