Youtube star Zaid Ali

Events in 1995 and 2-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Zaid Ali

• US rescues Mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program (Feb. 21).
• Russian space station Mir greets first Americans (March 14). US shuttle docks with station (June 27).
• Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands. The Aum Shinrikyo ("Supreme Truth") cult is to blame (March 20). Background: International Terrorism
• Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre (April 22).
• Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia (May 1). Warring parties agree on cease-fire (Oct. 5); sign peace treaty (Dec. 14).
• France explodes nuclear device in Pacific; wide protests ensue (Sept. 5). Background: nuclear weapons
• Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring West Bank to Arabs (Sept. 24). Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin slain by Jewish extremist at peace rally (Nov. 4).

Birthday Zaid Ali (2-7) in history

• Day 2-7 year 1566: French astrologer, physician and author of the book "Prophecies" Nostradamus passed away in Salon-de-Provence.
• Day 2-7 year 1881: President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau; he died on Sept. 19.
• Day 2-7 year 1890: Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Day 2-7 year 1937: Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.
• Day 2-7 year 1964: President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
• Day 2-7 year 1976: In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
• Day 2-7 year 1997: Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
• Day 2-7 year 2002: Steve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.