Dance artist Nikko Natividad

Events in 1995 and 16-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Nikko Natividad

• US rescues Mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program (Feb. 21).
• Russian space station Mir greets first Americans (March 14). US shuttle docks with station (June 27).
• Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands. The Aum Shinrikyo ("Supreme Truth") cult is to blame (March 20). Background: International Terrorism
• Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre (April 22).
• Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia (May 1). Warring parties agree on cease-fire (Oct. 5); sign peace treaty (Dec. 14).
• France explodes nuclear device in Pacific; wide protests ensue (Sept. 5). Background: nuclear weapons
• Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring West Bank to Arabs (Sept. 24). Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin slain by Jewish extremist at peace rally (Nov. 4).

Birthday Nikko Natividad (16-2) in history

• Day 16-2 year 1804: U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur.
• Day 16-2 year 1918: Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Russia.
• Day 16-2 year 1923: The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened.
• Day 16-2 year 1937: Nylon was patented.
• Day 16-2 year 1959: Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista.
• Day 16-2 year 1968: The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala.
• Day 16-2 year 1999: Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds.