Youtube star Madison Martine

Events in 1996 and 24-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Madison Martine

• 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 Madison Martine (24-7) in history

• Day 24-7 year 1847: Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.
• Day 24-7 year 1862: Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.
• Day 24-7 year 1866: Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
• Day 24-7 year 1937: Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.
• Day 24-7 year 1974: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
• Day 24-7 year 2002: Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.