Stage actor Daniel Assetta

Events in 1994 and 24-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Daniel Assetta

• Serbs' heavy weapons pound Sarajevo (Jan. 5-6).
• Thousands dead in Rwanda massacre (April 6).
• South Africa holds first interracial national election (April 29); Nelson Mandela elected President.
• Israel signs accord with Palestinians (May 4), peace treaty with Jordan (Oct. 17).
• IRA declares cease-fire in Northern Ireland (Aug. 31). Ulster Protestants declare cease-fire (Oct. 13).
• Aristide returns to Haiti (Oct. 4), forms Government with Prime Minister and full Cabinet (Nov. 9).
• US sends forces to Persian Gulf (Oct. 7).
• Russians attack secessionist Republic of Chechnya (Dec. 11 et seq.).

Birthday Daniel Assetta (24-9) in history

• Day 24-9 year 1789: Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.
• Day 24-9 year 1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
• Day 24-9 year 1960: The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
• Day 24-9 year 1969: The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.
• Day 24-9 year 1991: Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
• Day 24-9 year 1996: The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.