Actor Will Dunn

Events in 1996 and 26-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Will Dunn

• Chechens capture 2,000 Russians (Jan. 9). Chechnya peace treaty signed (May 27).
• France agrees to end nuclear testing (Jan. 29). Background: nuclear disarmament
• Britain alarmed by an outbreak of "mad cow" disease (March 20 et seq.).
• UN tribunal charges war crimes by Bosnian Muslims and Croats (March 22). Nations pledge $1.23 billion in aid to rebuild Bosnia (April 22).
• South Africa gets new constitution (May 8).
• Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister (May 31).
• Iraqis strike at Kurdish enclave (Aug. 31); after warning, US attacks Iraq's southern air defenses (Sept. 2–3).
• Militant Taliban leaders seize Afghan capital of Kabul (Sept. 27).
• Ethnic violence breaks out in Zairian refugee camps (Oct. 13); Clinton approves plan for UN-backed relief mission for 1.2 million Hutu refugees starving in eastern Zaire (Nov. 13). Hundreds of thousands return to Rwanda (Nov. 15–18).

Birthday Will Dunn (26-5) in history

• Day 26-5 year 1521: The decree of Worms banned the writings of the German theologian Martin Luther.
• Day 26-5 year 1868: President Andrew Johnson avoided conviction for impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors" by one vote.
• Day 26-5 year 1940: Allied troops began the massive naval evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, France, during World War II.
• Day 26-5 year 1959: Pittsburgh Pirates’ Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves before losing, 1–0, in the 13th.
• Day 26-5 year 1977: George Willig, "the human fly," scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by attaching himself to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top. It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb, and $1.10 in fines—a penny per floor.
• Day 26-5 year 1978: The first legal casino to be operated in the United States outside of Nevada was opened in Atlantic City.
• Day 26-5 year 2003: Rwandans voted to approve a new constitution that instituted a balance of power between Hutu and Tutsi.
• Day 26-5 year 2011: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general responsible for the massacre of over 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, is found and arrested in Lazarevo, a farming town north of Belgrade, Serbia.