Vine star Dylan Evans

Events in 1995 and 18-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Dylan Evans

• US rescues Mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program (Feb. 21).
• Russian space station Mir greets first Americans (March 14). US shuttle docks with station (June 27).
• Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands. The Aum Shinrikyo ("Supreme Truth") cult is to blame (March 20). Background: International Terrorism
• Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre (April 22).
• Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia (May 1). Warring parties agree on cease-fire (Oct. 5); sign peace treaty (Dec. 14).
• France explodes nuclear device in Pacific; wide protests ensue (Sept. 5). Background: nuclear weapons
• Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring West Bank to Arabs (Sept. 24). Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin slain by Jewish extremist at peace rally (Nov. 4).

Birthday Dylan Evans (18-8) in history

• Day 18-8 year 1227: The great king of Mongolia, Genghis Khan died in China.
• Day 18-8 year 1587: Virginia Dare becomes the first British child born in the "New World" North America.
• Day 18-8 year 1894: Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
• Day 18-8 year 1920: When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.
• Day 18-8 year 1936: Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot and killed by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War .
• Day 18-8 year 1958: Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was published.
• Day 18-8 year 1963: James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.