Youtube star Gabriel Vilhena

Events in 1996 and 8-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Gabriel Vilhena

• 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 Gabriel Vilhena (8-12) in history

• Day 8-12 year 1854: Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
• Day 8-12 year 1886: The American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio.
• Day 8-12 year 1941: Congress declared war on Japan and the U.S. entered World War II.
• Day 8-12 year 1949: Communist attacks forced the Chinese Nationalist government to flee to the island of Formosa (Taiwan).
• Day 8-12 year 1978: Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir died.
• Day 8-12 year 1980: John Lennon, former member of the Beatles, was shot and killed in New York City by a deranged fan.
• Day 8-12 year 1987: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
• Day 8-12 year 1993: President Bill Clinton signed The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law.