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1996




International Year for the Eradication of Poverty

Events

   * January 1 - Curacao gains limited self-government.
   * January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an
     Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
   * January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern
     states killing more than 100.
   * January 14 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal.
   * January 20 - Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian
     Authority.
   * January 24 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied
     for Moscow.
   * January 26 - Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies
     before a grand jury.
   * January 27 - Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara deposes the first
     democratically elected president of Niger Mahamane Ousmane in a
     military coup.
   * January 29 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to
     French nuclear testing.
   * January 30 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army
     Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
   * January 31 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the
     Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring
     1,400.
   * February - Iraq disarmament crisis: Recently defected Iraqi weapons
     program leader and son-in-law to Saddam Hussein, Hussein Kamel, returns
     to Iraq. Within days of his return, he is murdered along with his
     brother, father, sister and her children. Kamel had forced Iraq to
     reveal portions of its illegal nuclear and chemical weapons programs.
   * February 1 - Communications Decency Act is passed by the United States
     Congress.
   * February 10 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
   * February 17 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry
     Kasparov beats the "Deep Blue" supercomputer in a chess match.
   * March - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces refuse UNSCOM inspection
     teams access to five sites designated for inspection. The teams enter
     the sites only after delays of up to 17 hours.
   * March 11 - John Howard becomes the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of
     Australia.
   * March 13 - The Dunblane Massacre.
   * March 14 - American President Bill Clinton commits $100 million to an
     anti-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out
     terrorists.
   * March 20 - In Los Angeles, California, Erik and Lyle Menendez are found
     guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
   * March 23 - The Republic of China on Taiwan holds its first direct
     elections for president. Lee Teng-hui is reelected.
   * March 25 - An 81-day long standoff between antigovernment Freemen in
     Jordan, Montana and federal officers begins.
   * March 26 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion
     loan to Russia for economic reform.
   * April 3 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his
     Montana cabin.
   * May 11 - After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by
     improperly-handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound
     ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida
     Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
   * May 13 - Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kills 600.
   * May 20 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in
     Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town
     or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative,
     executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals.
   * May 23 - Swede Gšran Kropp reaches Mount Everest summit alone without
     oxygen after having bicycled there from Sweden.
   * May 27 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with
     Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the
     war.
   * May-June - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM supervises the destruction
     of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare
     agents.
   * June - Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors
     access to a number of sites, the U.S. fails in its attempt to build
     support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
   * June 27 - 19 people are killed when a truck bomb explodes outside a
     U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia.
   * July - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. Inspector Ritter attempts to
     conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the
     airport, but is blocked by Iraqi officials.
   * July 5 - Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned
     from an adult cell, is born.
   * July 8 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a
     hand-delivered document, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Security
     the Realm," spelling out how Israel could abrogate the Oslo Accords,
     and pursue a permanent annexation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,
     among other policies. The paper had been prepared for him by Richard
     Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Doug Feith, David Wurmser and John Bolton.
   * July 17 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing
     747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes killing all 230 on board.
   * July 18 - 21 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in
     Quebec, in one of Canada's most costly natural disasters.
   * July 27 - The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer
     Olympics kills one and injures 111.
   * July 29 - The Communications Decency Act of 1996 is struck down as too
     broad by a US federal court.
   * August 6 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite thought to
     originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
   * August 31 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi forces launch an offensive
     into the northern No-Fly Zone and capture Arbil.
   * October/November (sources vary) - Al-Jazeera, Arabic television news
     channel based in Qatar, starts broadcasting.
   * November - Bill Clinton defeats Bob Dole in the U.S. presidential
     election.
   * November - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried
     prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove
     remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country.
   * September 27 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture capital city Kabul
     after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former
     leader Mohammad Najibullah.
   * December 12 - Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination
     attempt.
   * December 26 - JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found
     murdered in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado.
   * December 27 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which
     solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
   * December 29 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National
     Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36 year a civil
     war.
   * December 2 - U.S. President Bill Cliton signs Electronic Freedom of
     Information Act Amendments.
   * December 30 - In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed
     by Bodo separatists killing 26.
   * December 30 - Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests
     from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.

   * id Software releases the first person shooter computer game Quake.
   * The O.J. Simpson trial begins.
   * Martina Hingis youngest person in history (age 16) to win at Wimbledon
     (Ladies Doubles event).
   * Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
   * A bomb goes off at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia killing one
     person. The media and investigators almost immediately focus their
     attention on security guard Richard Jewell, but later clear him as a
     suspect.
   * Web comic Sabrina Online first published.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1996 in film
        o The English Patient
        o Fargo
   * 1996 in sports
        o January 28 - Super Bowl XXX Dallas Cowboys (27) def. Pittsburgh
          Steelers (17)
   * 1996 in television
        o The O.J. Simpson civil trial begins
        o Zenith introduces the first HDTV-compatible front projection TV in
          the U.S.. Broadcasters, TV & PC manufacturers set industry
          standards for digital HDTV.
        o Over a billion households worldwide now own television sets.

Births

   * July 5 - Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal

Deaths

   * January 5 - Yahya Ayyash, terrorist
   * January 8 - Franois Mitterrand, French politician and President of
     France.
   * January 17 - Barbara Jordan, politician
   * January 20 - Gerry Mulligan, musician
   * January 28 - Jerry Seigel, cartoonist, creator of "Superman"
   * February 3 - Audrey Meadows, actress
   * February 6 - Guy Madison, actor
   * February 11 - Amelia Rosselli, poet.
   * February 11 - Bob Shaw, science fiction writer.
   * February 11 - Cyril Poole, English cricket player.
   * February 11 - Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia (1985-1989).
   * February 11 - Phil Regan, actor
   * February 16 - Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California
   * February 16 - Brownie McGhee, blues singer
   * February 20 - Toru Takemitsu, composer
   * February 25 - Hang S. Ngor, actor
   * March 4 - Minnie Pearl, country music performer
   * March 9 - George Burns, actor, singer
   * March 10 - Ross Hunter, producer
   * March 13 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director
   * March 26 - David Packard, engineer
   * April 6 - Greer Garson, actress
   * April 22 - Erma Bombeck, humorist, writer
   * April 26 - Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer
   * May 20 - Jon Pertwee, actor
   * May 31 - Paul Peter Piech, artist
   * June 15 - Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
   * July 30 - Claudette Colbert, actress
   * August 13 - David Tudor, pianist and composer
   * September 13 - Tupac Shakur, rapper, poet, actor
   * November 30 - Tiny Tim, musician
   * December 20 - Carl Sagan - US astronomer
   * Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
   * Willie Rushton, UK comedian and cartoonist
   * Paul Rand, famous American graphic designer of corporate logos

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson
   * Chemistry - Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
   * Medicine - Peter C Doherty, Rolf M Zinkernagel
   * Literature - Wislawa Szymborska
   * Peace - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta
   * Economics - James Mirrlees, William Vickrey

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