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Events in 1996 and 1-2

Events in the world in the birth year of SGCBarbierian

• 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 SGCBarbierian (1-2) in history

• Day 1-2 year 1790: The United States Supreme Court was convened for the first time in New York City.
• Day 1-2 year 1862: Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
• Day 1-2 year 1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
• Day 1-2 year 1946: A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Day 1-2 year 1960: Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
• Day 1-2 year 1968: During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
• Day 1-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
• Day 1-2 year 2003: The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
• Day 1-2 year 2004: Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
• Day 1-2 year 2009: Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.