1979 Event Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament 1979 Event Snow falls in Sahara Desert 1976 Event Spain withdraws from Western Sahara 1976 Event Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara 1976 Event Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara 1975 Event Spain, Morocco and Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara 1974 Birthday Penelope Cruz, born in Alcobendas, Spain, actress, films include, 'Vanilla Sky', 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', 'Sahara', 'Volver', 'Sex and the City 2' 1962 Event 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria 1960 Event France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara 1958 Event Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco 1955 Birthday Michael Thompson, guitarist, Afterburn, Fresh, Sahara, Gridlock'd 1949 Birthday Lanny [Jerry Lanston] Wadkins Richmond, Virginia, PGA golfer, 1972 Sahara 1931 Birthday Clive Cussler, writer, Raise The Titantic, Sahara
