Youtube star Ryan Right

Events in 1990 and 31-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Ryan Right

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).

Birthday Ryan Right (31-7) in history

• Day 31-7 year 1498: The explorer Columbus arrived on the island of Trinidad.
• Day 31-7 year 1777: The Marquis de Lafayette became a major-general in the American Continental Army.
• Day 31-7 year 1790: The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a process of making fertilizer.
• Day 31-7 year 1875: Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, died in Tennessee.
• Day 31-7 year 1954: Mount Godwin-Austen (K2), the world's second-highest peak, was climbed for the first time, by an Italian team led by Ardito Desio.
• Day 31-7 year 1964: The U.S. space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the Moon’s surface.