Youtube star Jack Pendragon

Events in 1996 and 30-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Jack Pendragon

• 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 Jack Pendragon (30-4) in history

• Day 30-4 year 1803: France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
• Day 30-4 year 1812: Louisiana became the 18th state in the United States.
• Day 30-4 year 1939: U.S. commercial television made its official debut at the New York World’s Fair.The signal was transmitted from the Empire State Building.
• Day 30-4 year 1945: Adolf Hitler and his newly married mistress Eva Braun committed suicide.
• Day 30-4 year 1948: The Organization of American States held its first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia.
• Day 30-4 year 1975: The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam.
• Day 30-4 year 1991: Over 131,000 were killed and as many as 9 million left homeless when a cyclone struck Bangladesh.
• Day 30-4 year 2003: Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.