TV actor Thiti Mahayotaruk

Events in 1996 and 19-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Thiti Mahayotaruk

• 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 Thiti Mahayotaruk (19-11) in history

• Day 19-11 year 1703: The death of a mysterious masked man, he was imprisoned in the Bastille prison in Paris. His true identity was the cause of many conspiracies, and his story became the basis for the literary works of François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
• Day 19-11 year 1794: John Jay and Lord Grenville signed Jay's Treaty.
• Day 19-11 year 1863: Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.
• Day 19-11 year 1977: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
• Day 19-11 year 1985: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time in Geneva.
• Day 19-11 year 1990: Milli Vanilli's Grammy award was rescinded after it was discovered they didn't do their own singing.