Instagram star Lorenzo Cromwell

Events in 1995 and 19-3

Events in US in the birth year of Lorenzo Cromwell

• Criminal trial of O. J. Simpson opens in California (Jan. 24).
• Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building (April 19); Timothy McVeigh, 27, arrested as suspect (April 21); authorities seek second suspect, link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing (April 22).
• Los Angeles jury finds O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder charges (Oct. 3).
• Pope John Paul II visits US on whirlwind tour (Oct. 4-8).
• Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital (Oct. 16).

Birthday Lorenzo Cromwell (19-3) in history

• Day 19-3 year 1853: During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).
• Day 19-3 year 1920: The United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.
• Day 19-3 year 1931: Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.
• Day 19-3 year 1953: The Academy Awards were first televised.
• Day 19-3 year 1996: Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.
• Day 19-3 year 2003: Mahmoud Abbas became prime minister of Palestine. He would later succeed Yasir Arafat as head of the PLO and president of the Palestinian Authority.