Youtube star Dion Yorkie

Events in 1996 and 2-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Dion Yorkie

• 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 Dion Yorkie (2-4) in history

• Day 2-4 year 1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first set foot on the Florida land he named.
• Day 2-4 year 1792: Congress authorized the first U.S. mint, in Philadelphia.
• Day 2-4 year 1865: Confederate president Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
• Day 2-4 year 1870: Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for president of the United States.
• Day 2-4 year 1917: President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany.
• Day 2-4 year 1932: Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
• Day 2-4 year 1982: Argentina seized the Falkland Islands from Britain
• Day 2-4 year 2005: Pope John Paul II died.