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1996 |
| January 5th |
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Terrorist
group Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash was killed by a mobile telephone
booby-trapped by the Israelis. |
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| January 8th |
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In France, François Mitterrand the President of France
died. |
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| January 20th |
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In
the Middle-East, Yasser Arafat was re-elected President of the
Palestinian Authority. |
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| January 24th |
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Polish
Premier Jozef Oleksy resigned amid the charges that he spied
for the Russians. |
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| January 26th |
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Hillary
Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury with regard to
the Whitewater scandal. President Clinton was also implicated. |
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| January 29th |
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French
President Jacques Chirac announced a 'definitive end' to French
nuclear testing, which was restarted in French Polynesia on
June 13th 1995. |
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| January 30th |
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Leader
of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher was killed,
in an internal feud, while in line for his unemployment benefit. |
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| January 31st |
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An
explosives-filled truck rammed into the gates of the Central
Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The attack killed 86 and injured
1,400 people. |
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| February. |
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Defected
Iraqi weapons program leader Hussein Kamel, and son-in-law to
Saddam Hussein, returned to Iraq. Kamel had forced Iraq to reveal
portions of its illegal nuclear and chemical weapons programs.
After his return Saddam Hussein unleashed his wrath. Kamel was
murdered along with his brother, father, sister and her children. |
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| February
9th |
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The
IRA ceasefire ended when they exploded a 1 ton bomb in Canary
Wharf, London. Two people were killed dead. |
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| February
10th |
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In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, chess computer 'Deep Blue' developed
by IBM played world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Deep Blue
was the first computer to defeat a reigning champion in a chess
game. |
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| February
17th |
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The
chess match between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and
the IBM supercomputer 'Deep Blue' ended. Garry Kasparov won
the match 4-2, with three wins, two draws and one defeat. |
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| February
18th |
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An
IRA bomb was accidently detonated on a London bus. The blast
killed the bomber and injured 9 in the West End of London. |
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| March 13th |
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The
Dunblane Massacre. A gunman entered a primary school in Dunblane,
Scotland, and fired with two handguns at teachers and children.
15 children and 1 teacher were slaughtered, and many others
injured. The gunman escaped justice by turning his gun on himself. |
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| March 19th |
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The
capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo, became a united city again when
Bosnian authorities took control of the last district that had
been held by the Serbs. |
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| March 20th |
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In
Los Angeles, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez were found guilty
of first-degree murder of their parents. The brothers had used
shotguns to kill their mother and father in the family home. |
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| March 25th |
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An
81-day long stand off between anti-government Freemen in Jordan,
Montana and federal officers began in the USA. |
|
| March 26th |
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The
International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $10.2 billion loan
to Russia for 'economic reform'. |
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| April 3rd |
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In
the United States, the suspected serial bomber, the 'Unabomber',
Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin. |
|
| April 10th |
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United
States President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have
banned partial-birth abortion. |
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| April 18th |
|
In
the Middle-East, over 100 Lebanese civilians were killed after
the Israelis shelled the UN compound in Qana. |
|
| April 28th |
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Martin
Bryant killed 35 people when he went on a shoting spree at the
Port Arthur tourist site, Tasmania, Australia. |
|
| May 20th |
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The
British actor Jon Pertwee died. Pertwee was a renowned stage
actor and was most famous for playing Dr. Who in the BBC cult
series. |
|
| May 27th |
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The
Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with Chechnyan rebels for
the first time and negotiated a cease-fire in the war. |
|
| June. |
|
As
Iraq continued to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites,
the U.S. failed in its attempt to build support for military
action against Iraq in the UN Security Council. |
|
| June 10th |
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In
Northern Ireland peace talks began without the Irish nationalist
party, Sinn Féin. |
|
| June 13th |
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The
81-day stand off in Jordan, Montana, between the anti-government
Freemen and FBI agents ended with their surrender. |
|
| June 15th |
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The
Irish terrorist group, the IRA (Irish Republican Army), detonated
a large bomb that devastated the City Centre of Manchester in
England. |
|
| June 25th |
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In
Saudi Arabia, 19 U.S. servicemen were killed by a bomb at the
Khobar Towers. |
|
| July 5th |
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In
Scotland Dolly the sheep, cloned from an adult cell, was born
at the Roslin Institute. Dolly was the first mammal to be successfully
cloned, but would die prematurely in February 2003. Dolly's
brith would not be announced to the world until February 22nd
1997. |
|
| July 17th |
|
Off
the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747
carrying TWA flight 800 exploded with all 230 passengers killed. |
|
| July 27th |
|
A
bomb was detonated at the Centennial Olympic Park during the
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta, USA. The bomb killed one and
injured 111 other people. |
|
| August 6th |
|
NASA
announced that the ALH 84001 meteorite thought to originate
from Mars, contained evidence of primitive life-forms. |
|
| August 7th |
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Heavy
rains caused floods which killed more than 80 campers near Huesca
in Spain. |
|
| August 13th |
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Data
sent back by the Galileo space probe indicated there may be
water on one of Jupiter's moons. |
|
| August 17th |
|
Under
threat of subpoena, President Clinton testified to a grand jury
via closed-camera, on possible perjury regarding an extra marital
affair with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky. |
|
| August 28th |
|
In
London, England, the High Court of Justice officially announced
the divorce of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness
The Princess of Wales was restyled, Diana, Princess of Wales. |
|
| September
25th |
|
In
Ireland, the last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed. Institutions
for women considered 'fallen' by the Roman Catholic Church.
Magdalen Asylums had institutionised women, against their will,
for 150 years. |
|
| September
27th |
|
In
Afghanistan, the Taliban captured the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The Taliban drove out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executed
the former leader Mohammad Najibullah. |
|
| October 23rd |
|
In
the United States, the O.J. Simpson civil trial began with the
opening statements in Los Angeles, California.. |
|
| November
5th |
|
In
the U.S. presidential election President Bill Clinton (Democrat)
defeated the Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second
term as President, and became the first Democrat President to
win a second term of office since F.D. Roosevelt. |
|
| November
7th |
|
NASA
launched the Mars Global Surveyor from Cape Canaveral in Florida,
USA. It began NASA's return to Mars after a 20-year absence. |
|
| November
15th |
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Alger
Hiss, former U.S. State Department official died. Hiss was accused
of spying for the Soviet Union. Sentenced to five years on January
25th 1950, but served 44 months at the Lewisburg Federal Prison.
Hiss maintained his innocence and fought to clear his name until
his death at the age of 92. |
|
| November
16th |
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Albanian
'Angel of Mercy' Mother Teresa was granted honorary US citizenship. |
|
| December
4th |
|
NASA's
Mars Pathfinder was launched on board a Delta II rocket. It
would be a 7-month voyage to the surface of Mars, which would
arrive on July 4th 1997, at the Ares Vallis, a region called
Chryse Planitia. |
|
| December
12th |
|
Uday
Hussein, son of Iraq leader Saddam Hussein, was seriously injured
in a failed assassination attempt on his life. |
|
| December
17th |
|
Túpac
Amaru Revolutionary Movement took 72 hostages in the Japanese
Embassy in Lima, Peru. |
|
| December
20th |
|
In
the United States, Steve Jobs and his company NeXT were bought
back into the Apple company, the company he originally founded. |
|
| December
20th |
|
The
American astronomer and author Carl Sagan died. He pioneered
exobiology and promoted the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
(SETI). Sagan helped to develop the Voyager Golden Record that
was sent out with the Voyager space probes. |
|
| December
26th |
|
In
the United States, the six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét
Ramsey, was found murdered in her family's basement in Boulder,
Colorado. |
|
| December
27th |
|
Taliban
forces retook the strategic Bagram air base which solidified
their buffer zone around Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. |
|
| December
29th |
|
Guatemala
and the leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed
a peace accord that ended a 36 year a civil war. |
|
| December
30th |
|
Proposed
budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu sparked protests from 250,000
workers who shut down the services across Israel. |
|
| December
31st |
|
Boutros
Boutros-Ghali stepped down as the Secretary General of the United
Nations. He was then succeeded by Kofi Annan. |
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