TV actor Khylin Rhambo

Events in 1996 and 8-1

Events in US in the birth year of Khylin Rhambo

• US budget crisis in fourth month (Jan 3).
• Clinton approves resumption of many government operations (Jan. 6).
• Bob Dole sweeps primaries (March 5).
• F.B.I. arrests suspected Unabomber (April 3).
• Clinton signs line-item veto bill (April 9).
• President blocks ban on late-term abortions (April 10).
• Valujet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed (May 11).
• 747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island, N.Y.; all 230 aboard perish (July 17).
• Congress passes welfare reform bill (Aug. 2); approved by Clinton Aug. 22.
• Republican convention nominates Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (Aug. 14); Democratic convention nominates incumbents Clinton and Gore, who win the national election (Nov. 5).
• Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female US secretary of state (Dec. 5).

Birthday Khylin Rhambo (8-1) in history

• Day 8-1 year 1815: The date of the Battle of New Orleans was the last battle of the War of 1812 between Great Britain and America.
• Day 8-1 year 1918: Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.
• Day 8-1 year 1958: Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
• Day 8-1 year 1959: Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.
• Day 8-1 year 1964: President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
• Day 8-1 year 1982: The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."
• Day 8-1 year 1998: The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.
• Day 8-1 year 2011: Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.