Instagram star Kazim Ale

Events in 1995 and 4-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Kazim Ale

• 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 Kazim Ale (4-8) in history

• Day 4-8 year 1735: Journalist John Peter Zenger, defended by former Pennsylvania House Speaker Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of defamation in a case that helped promote press freedom.
• Day 4-8 year 1884: Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States. He later bicycled around the world.
• Day 4-8 year 1892: Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
• Day 4-8 year 1914: Germany invaded Belgium and, in response, Britain declared war on Germany.
• Day 4-8 year 1916: Denmark ceded the Danish West Indies, including the Danish Virgin Islands, to the United States for $25 million.
• Day 4-8 year 1944: Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis.
• Day 4-8 year 1964: The bodies of three civil-rights workers were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson
• Day 4-8 year 1977: President Carter signed a congressional act that established the Department of Energy.