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America in 1996

Edited by Lisa Casinger -- Home Accents Today, 8/1/2005

  • Jan. 1 After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin

  • Jan. 8 Blizzard buries eastern U.S. causing at least 50 deaths

  • Jan. 21 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta

  • Jan. 27 Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day

  • Jan. 29 6,138th performance of Cats is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, A Chorus Line

  • Feb. 2 Ali Landry, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA

  • Feb. 24 Cuba downs 2 U.S. planes

  • Mar. 7 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope

  • Mar. 7 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists

  • Mar. 17 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title

  • Mar. 19 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage

  • Mar. 20 Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

  • Mar. 25 U.S. issues newly-redesigned $100 bill

  • Apr. 14 60th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 276

  • Apr. 23 Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie Onassis things nets $34.5 million

  • May 1 Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game

  • May 21 Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York

  • May 22 Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation — Susan Lucci loses for 16th time.

  • June 10 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip

  • June 11 Bob Dole resigns from Senate to run for president

  • June 12 3 Philadelphia Fed Court judges overturn U.S. indecency ban on Internet

  • June 23 Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan

  • June 29 Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900

  • July 1 Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera

  • July 4 Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins

  • July 9 Senate approves 90 cents raise to $4.25 minimum wage

  • July 15 MSNBC begins Microsoft Internet-NBC TV

  • July 15 Prince Charles and Princess Di sign divorce papers

  • July 19 XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta

  • July 27 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured

  • Aug. 6 NASA announces life may have existed on Mars

  • Aug. 10 Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate

  • Aug. 13 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0

  • Aug. 21 Netscape Browser 3.0 is released

  • Aug. 25 96th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

  • Sept. 21 John F Kennedy Jr. marries Caroline Bisset

  • Oct. 10 Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City

  • Oct. 14 Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)

  • Nov. 22 OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"

  • Dec. 4 NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral

  • Dec. 23 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history

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