Pop - Singer Riley McDonough

Events in 1995 and 31-8

Events in US in the birth year of Riley McDonough

• 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 Riley McDonough (31-8) in history

• Day 31-8 year 1887: Thomas Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope," and moving pictures were born.
• Day 31-8 year 1888: Mary Ann Nicholls, considered to be Jack the Ripper's first victim, was found murdered in London.
• Day 31-8 year 1962: Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Great Britain.
• Day 31-8 year 1980: Poland's Solidarity labor movement had its beginnings when an agreement ending a 17-day strike was signed in Gdansk.
• Day 31-8 year 1994: Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltic states.
• Day 31-8 year 1997: Princess Diana and her companion Dodi al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris.
• Day 31-8 year 2012: Armenia severed diplomatic relations with Hungary, after the pardoning of Ramil Safarov. In 2004, Safarov was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier.