Youtube star Alejo Igoa

Events in 1996 and 23-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Alejo Igoa

• 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 Alejo Igoa (23-8) in history

• Day 23-8 year 1305: Scottish leader and national hero, William Wallace, was executed in London.
• Day 23-8 year 1914: Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
• Day 23-8 year 1926: Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.
• Day 23-8 year 1927: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery, despite worldwide protests.
• Day 23-8 year 1939: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.