Instagram star Jared Yarnall

Events in 1996 and 18-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Jared Yarnall

• 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 Jared Yarnall (18-11) in history

• Day 18-11 year 1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.
• Day 18-11 year 1883: Standard time began in the United States.
• Day 18-11 year 1886: Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States (1881–1885), died in New York at 56.
• Day 18-11 year 1928: Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.
• Day 18-11 year 1976: Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
• Day 18-11 year 1978: Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot.
• Day 18-11 year 2003: The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.
• Day 18-11 year 2004: The UN Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi. This was the first time it had convened outside of New York headquarters.