1996 Death Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1993 Event President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees 1992 Event U.N. Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia 1992 Death David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia U.N. votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting 1991 Event Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia 1990 Event Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia 1988 Event Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid 1984 Event 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1981 Event Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia 1980 Death Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87 1978 Event Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia 1977 Birthday Iva Majoli, Yugoslavia, tennis star 1976 Event Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard 1975 Death Ivo Andric, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina', dies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at age 82 1974 Event Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed Yugoslavia adopts constitution 1973 Birthday Monica Seles, Novi Sad Yugoslavia, tennis star, U.S. Open 1992 1972 Event Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia 1970 Death Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57 1969 Death Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premier of (Yugoslavia 1939-4.), dies at 76 1968 Birthday Vlade Divac, Yugoslavia, NBA center, Charlotte Hornets, Los Angeles Lakers 1964 Birthday Goran Prpic, Yugoslavia, tennis star 1963 Event Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+ 1963 Birthday Siobodan Zivojinovic, Yugoslavia, tennis star Sabrina Goles, born in Yugoslavia, tennis star Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic 1962 Event Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty 1961 Death Milan Stojadinovic, premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73 Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister 1935 - 1939, dies at 73 1958 Birthday Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist, 1978 Casagrande winner 1958 Event 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54 1957 Event Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" 1957 Birthday Zeljko Ivanek, Lujubljana Yugoslavia, actor, Mass Appeal 1956 Birthday Mima Jausovec, born in Yugoslavia, tennis player, French Open-1977 1955 Event Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement 1954 Birthday Emir Kusturica, born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, filmmaker, actor, musician, appeared in films, 'Promise Me This', 'Maradona' 1953 Event Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito) Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia 1950 Birthday Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia 1947 Event Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia 1946 Event U.S. recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic 1945 Birthday Goran Antunac, born in Yugoslavia, International Chess Master, 1975 1945 Event Yugoslavia government of Tito forms 1944 Event Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia 1942 Event Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia 1941 Event Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia 1941 Birthday Laura Antonelli, Pola Yugoslavia, actress, Wifemistress, Divine Nymph Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia 2nd meeting partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia 1st meeting of partizans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis King Peter leaves Yugoslavia Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) 1937 Event Italy and Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) 1934 Death King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist) 1934 Event Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania) 1932 Birthday Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director, Man is Not a Bird 1931 Death Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages 1929 Birthday Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia 1929 Event Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia 1923 Birthday Peter II Karadjordjevic, King of Yugoslavia, 1934-45 1922 Birthday Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet, Heaven is a Side Issue 1921 Birthday Dobrica Cosic, born in Velika Drenova, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Serbia, writer, political, national theorist, first president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992 - 1993, called 'Father of the Nation' 1921 Death Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies 1920 Event Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia 1918 Event Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic 1917 Event Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia 1911 Birthday Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician, New Class 1910 Birthday Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Yugoslavia, Nobel 1979 1908 Birthday Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano, Ljublama Opera 1927 1905 Birthday Vjekoslav Kaleb, Yugoslavia, writer, Splendor of the Fabric 1900 Birthday Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslavia, composer and conductor Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia 1893 Birthday Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia, 1939-4. 1892 Birthday Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia, 1943-80 1890 Birthday Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP, communist 1888 Birthday Aleksandar I Karadordjevic, king of Yugoslavia, 1921-34 Milan Stoyadinovich, born in Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM, 1935-39 1876 Birthday Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia, 1922-34 1856 Birthday Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavia, physicist, developed alternating current 1844 Birthday Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia 1739 Event Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade
