Pop - Singer Jeremy Shayne

Events in 1996 and 3-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Jeremy Shayne

• 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 Jeremy Shayne (3-12) in history

• Day 3-12 year 1818: Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
• Day 3-12 year 1833: Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
• Day 3-12 year 1910: Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
• Day 3-12 year 1919: French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
• Day 3-12 year 1967: Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
• Day 3-12 year 1984: A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.