List of events
Events from the year 1996 in the United States .
Incumbents ※ Federal government ※ Bob Dole (R –Kansas ) (until June 12)Trent Lott (R –Mississippi ) (starting June 12)Events ※ January ※ January 7: North American blizzard of 1996 January 2 – Philadelphia police officer Lauretha Vaird is shot. And later pronounced dead during botched armed bank robbery by rapper Cool C . She becomes Philadelphia's first female police officer killed in the line of duty.
January 7 – One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people. Philadelphia receives a record 30 inches of snowfall and "New York City's public schools close for the first time in 18 years." The federal government in Washington, D.C. is closed for several days, extending the time federal employees are out of the office from the 1996 federal government shutdown .
January 19 – The North Cape oil spillScandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island . The North Cape barge is pulled along with it and leaks 820,000 gallons of home heating oil.
January 23 – State of the Union Address .
January 26
January 28 – Super Bowl XXX : The Dallas Cowboys become the first NFL franchise——to win 3 Super Bowls in a span of 4 seasons, as they defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27–17 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona . It is the Cowboys' fifth Super Bowl championship. February ※ February 1 – Sundance Channel debuts.
February 2 – Frontier Middle School shooting : A gunman kills his algebra teacher and two other students in Moses Lake, Washington .
February 6 – 1996 Honolulu hostage crisis : A gunman takes hostages at his former place of employment in Honolulu, Hawaii .
February 15 – The U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece comes under mortar fire.
February 16 – 1996 Maryland train collision : A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
February 17 – In Philadelphia , Garry Kasparov beats "Deep Blue " in a second chess match.
February 24 – Cuban fighter jets shoot down two American aircraft belonging——to the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue . Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace.
February 29 – In Lumberton, North Carolina , Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan , the father of basketball star Michael Jordan . March ※ April ※ April 3: Theodore Kaczynski arrested April 3
April 9 – President Bill Clinton signs the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 , granting the U.S. president line-item veto power. Just over two years later, in the case of Clinton v. City of New York Supreme Court of the United States would rule that the law is unconstitutional.
April 11 – Jessica Dubroff , 7, is killed in a plane crash in Cheyenne, Wyoming while attempting to set a record as the youngest person to pilot an airplane across the United States.
April 16 – The NBA's 1995–1996 Chicago Bulls , with Michael Jordan 's lead, go on to set a new NBA record for the most wins in a season, achieving their 70th win.
April 24 – President Bill Clinton signs the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 into law.
April 29 – The Broadway hit musical Rent Nederlander Theatre . May ※ June ※ June 25: Khobar Towers Bombing 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 10 – The Colorado Avalanche wins their first Stanley Cup in their first season based out of Denver, Colorado , defeating the Florida Panthers 4 games to none. Avalanche captain Joe Sakic wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
June 12 – In Philadelphia , a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet . The panel says that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.
June 13 – An 81-day standoff between the Montana Freemen and FBI agents ends with their surrender in Montana .
June 16 – The Chicago Bulls win their fourth NBA Championship by defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 2.
June 20 – The last fourth-generation Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line at the GM Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky .
June 21 – Walt Disney Pictures ' 34th feature film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
June 25 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi local.
June 28 – Universal Pictures releases The Nutty Professor 1963 film of the same name , in theaters. The film is a commercial and box office success, ranking as the 8th highest-grossing movie of the year. July ※ August ※ August – The unemployment rate drops to 5.1%, the lowest since March 1989, which saw the lowest rate of the previous business cycle.
August 1 – Michael Johnson wins the 200m finals of 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta in a world-record time of 19.32 seconds.
August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars , may contain evidence of primitive life-forms; further tests are inconclusive.
August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States , and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego , California .
August 16 – Binti Jua , a gorilla , saves a three-year-old boy who fell into the 20 foot (6.1 m) deep gorilla enclosure at Brookfield Zoo , Chicago .
August 19 – The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York .
August 21 – President Bill Clinton signs the War Crimes Act of 1996 into law.
August 22 – President Clinton signs the landmark Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act into law.
August 23 – Osama bin Laden writes "The Declaration of War on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.
August 24 – Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington found the Valve Corporation .
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August 29
August 31 – The Big 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game between Kansas State University and Texas Tech University in Manhattan, Kansas . September ※ September 3: Operation Desert Strike September 3
September 4 - The 1996 MTV Video Music Awards is held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City . The show was hosted by Dennis Miller and the most nominated artist of the year was The Smashing Pumpkins .
September 5 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear , North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 115 mph, just weeks prior to the landfall of Hurricane Bertha near the same location. It caused $3.2 billion in damages and claimed a total of 27 lives.
September 7 – Shortly after attending the Mike Tyson – Bruce Seldon boxing match at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada , rapper Tupac Shakur is critically wounded in a drive-by shooting , while cruising the Las Vegas Strip with Suge Knight . Shakur is rushed to UMC Medical Center and placed on life support .
September 8 – Blue's Clues Nick Jr. Channel
September 12 – 21-year-old Ricardo López commits suicide in his apartment in Hollywood, Florida , after mailing letter bomb to singer Björk's home in London . He recorded his own suicide using a VHS camera.
September 13 – Following the drive-by shooting that left the rapper in critical condition, 25-year-old rapper Tupac Shakur dies at UMC Medical Center , after succumbing to his gunshot wounds six day later.
September 14 – The U.S. wins the inaugural 1996 World Cup of Hockey by defeating Canada.
September 16 – Ricardo López is found dead in his apartment by Hollywood Police after reports of a foul odor in the room. After watching his suicide tape, police contact Scotland Yard to warn them about an explosive package on its way to Björk's home in London. London Metro Police Officers intercept the package and safely detonate it, leaving Björk unharmed.
September 24 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations .
September 29 – Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in North America. October ※ November ※ November 5: Bill Clinton re-elected president December ※ December 6: General Motors EV1 Ongoing ※ Births ※ January ※ Dove Cameron January 1 – Stunna 4 Vegas , rapper
January 2 – Dior Hall , hurdler
January 5 – Tyler Ulis , basketball player
January 8 – Khylin Rhambo , actor
January 9 – Oana Gregory , Romanian-American actress
January 10 – Curren Caples , skateboarder
January 15 – Dove Cameron , actress
January 18
January 21 – Jorge Lendeborg Jr. , Dominican-born actor
January 22 – Sami Gayle , actress
January 23 – Chachi Gonzales , dancer, choreographer and actress
January 27
January 31 – Joel Courtney , actor
January 28 – Emily Piriz , singer February ※ Kelli Berglund February 3
February 5 – Matt Watson , youtuber
February 6 – Dalton Rapattoni , singer
February 7
February 8 – Isadora Williams , figure skater
February 9
February 13 – Catherine Bouwkamp , wheelchair fencer
February 16 – Jimmy Pinchak , actor
February 17 – Sasha Pieterse , African-born actress
February 22 - Michael Johnston , actor
February 23 - D'Angelo Russell , basketball player
February 24 – Quinn Carpenter , ice dancer
February 25 – Elijah McClain , African-American who died after a police encounter (died 2019 )
February 28 – Bobb'e J. Thompson , actor March ※ Liza Koshy March 1 – Sage Northcutt , mixed martial artist
March 4 – Brenna Dowell , artistic gymnast
March 6 – Dillon Freasier , child actor
March 5 – Kyle Kaiser , racing driver
March 6 – Savannah Stehlin , actress
March 10 – Mia Rose Frampton , actress
March 15 – Maxwell Jacob Friedman , pro wrestler
March 17 – Saeed Blacknall , wide receiver
March 18 – Madeline Carroll , actress
March 29 – Wade Baldwin IV , basketball player
March 24 – Jack Johnson , singer and vocalist
March 31 – Liza Koshy , YouTuber April ※ Austin Mahone Ski Mask the Slump God Anya Taylor-Joy April 3 – Jackson Bond , actor
April 4 – Austin Mahone , singer
April 6 – VikkiKitty , esports commentator
April 9 - Emerson Hyndman , footballer
April 10
April 11
April 14 – Abigail Breslin , actress
April 16
April 17;
April 18 – Ski Mask the Slump God , American rapper
April 19 – Sam Woolf , singer
April 21 – Tavi Gevinson , blogger
April 24 – D'Onta Foreman , American football player
April 25 – Allisyn Ashley Arm , actress
April 28 – Tony Revolori , actor May ※ Noah Munck 6ix9ine Ryan Ochoa May 3
May 4 – Arielle Gold , snowboarder
May 5
May 6 – Dominic Scott Kay , actor
May 8 – 6ix9ine , rapper
May 9
May 10 – SypherPK , youtuber and twitch streamer
May 14
May 17 – Ryan Ochoa , actor
May 18 – Violett Beane , actress
May 20 – Michael Brown , African-American teen killed by the Ferguson Police Department (d. 2014 )
May 19
May 21 – Josh Allen , American footballer
May 22 - Charlie DePew, actor
May 23 – John Requejo , American footballer
May 24 – Frank Dolce , actor
May 26 – Tyler Hilinski , American footballer (d. 2018 )
May 27 - Gianni Paolo , actor
May 28;
May 30
May 31 – Normani , singer June ※ Lele Pons June 1 - Chase Chrisley, voice actor
June 2 – Jacy Jayne , pro wrestler
June 7 – Christian McCaffrey , American football player
June 10 – Raury , singer-songwriter
June 11 – Kaleo Kanahele , volleyball player
June 12
June 16 – Lily Zhang , tennis player
June 20 – Claudia Lee , actress, singer and songwriter
June 25 – Lele Pons , YouTuber, singer July ※ David Dobrik August ※ Simone Manuel Brianna Hildebrand August 1 – Cymphonique Miller , actress and singer
August 2;
August 3 – Derwin James , American football player
August 6 – Merrell Twins , YouTubers
August 10 – Jacob Latimore , actor, singer, and rapper
August 14 – Brianna Hildebrand , actress
August 16 – Caeleb Dressel , swimmer
August 21 – Jamia Simone Nash , singer and actress
August 25 – Naelee Rae , actress and singer
August 30 – Trevor Jackson , actor, writer, singer and dancer September ※ Zendaya Lil Xan Lili Reinhart October ※ Madison Cunningham October 3 – Adair Tishler , actress, model and singer
October 4
October 5 – Mary Gibbs , actress
October 9 –
October 12 – Paulie Koch , wakeboarderOctober 14 – Madison Cunningham , singer
October 18 – Dorian McMenemy , swimmer
October 23 – Sam Berns , high school student with progeria and documentary subject (died 2014 )
October 24 – Kyla Ross , gymnast
October 25 – Keean Johnson , actor and dancer
October 28
October 29 – Hannah Miller , figure skater November ※ Noah Ringer RiceGum JuJu Smith-Schuster December ※ Deestroying Hailee Steinfeld Joe Burrow Kaitlyn Dever December 2 – Deestroying , Costa Rican youtuber
December 6 – Stefanie Scott , actress and singer
December 7 – Asian Doll , rapper
December 8 – Teala Dunn , actress
December 9 – Mykayla Skinner , artistic gymnast
December 10
Joe Burrow , American football playerNathan Freihoder, military
December 11 – Hailee Steinfeld , actress
December 12
December 13
December 21 – Kaitlyn Dever , actress
December 27 – Jae Head , actor
December 29
December 30 – Sabrina Sobhy , squash player Full date unknown ※ Deaths ※
January 1 – Arleigh Burke , naval officer (b. 1901 )January 5 – Lincoln Kirstein , director and producer (b. 1907 ) – Harold Brodkey , writer and novelist (b. 1930 )January 15
January 28
February 2
February 3 – Audrey Meadows , television actress (b. 1922 )February 6 – Guy Madison , television actor (b. 1922)February 7 – Phillip Davidson , general (b. 1915 )February 13 – Martin Balsam , character actor, died in Rome, Italy (b. 1919 )February 15
February 16
February 17 – Gus Hardin , country music singer (b.1945 )February 19 – Charlie Finley , businessman and owner of the Oakland Athletics (b. 1918 )February 25 – Haing S. Ngor , Cambodian-born American actor (b. 1940 )March 4 – Minnie Pearl , comedian and singer (b.1912 )March 5 – Whit Bissell , actor (b, 1909 )March 9 – George Burns , comedian (b. 1896 )March 10
March 11 – Vince Edwards , screen actor (b. 1928 )March 26
March 31 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce , cowpunk singer-songwriter-guitarist (b. 1958 )April 1 – John McSherry , professional baseball umpire (b. 1944 )April 6 – Greer Garson , film actress (b. 1904 in the United Kingdom )April 21 – Jimmy Snyder, sports commentator and bookmaker (b. 1918 )April 22 – Erma Bombeck , humorist and writer (b. 1927 )April 30 – Jeanne Bal , actress and model (b. 1928 )May 1 – David M. Kennedy , politician and businessman (b. 1905 )May 2 – Queen Mother Moore , African American civil rights leader (b. 1898 )May 3 – Jack Weston , actor (b. 1924 )May 6 – William Colby , intelligence officer (b. 1922 )May 17 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson , musician (b. 1935 )May 19 – Jimmy Lyons , saxophone player (b. 1931 )May 31 – Timothy Leary , social activist (b. 1920 )June 2 – Ray Combs , host and comedian (b. 1956 )June 7 – Max Factor Jr. , businessman (b. 1904 )June 10 – Jo Van Fleet , actress (b. 1915 )June 12 – Lillian Yarbo , African American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1905 )June 15 – Ella Fitzgerald , African American jazz singer (b. 1917 )June 19
June 27
July 1 – Margaux Hemingway , fashion model, actress, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway (b. 1954 )July 6 – Kathy Ahern , golfer (b. 1949 )July 9 – Melvin Belli , lawyer (b. 1907 )July 12 – John Chancellor , journalist (b. 1927 )July 21
July 23 – Jean Muir , film actress (b. 1911 )July 24 – Virginia Christine , actress (b. 1920 )July 28 – Roger Tory Peterson , naturalist and artist (b. 1908 )July 30 – Claudette Colbert , film actress (b. 1903 in France )August 14 – Tom Mees , sportscaster (b. 1949 )August 27 – Greg Morris , actor (b. 1933 )September 7 – Bibi Besch , Austrian-American actress (b. 1942 )September 9 – Bill Monroe , musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1911 )September 10 – Joanne Dru , actress (b. 1922 )September 11 – Sapphire , professional wrestler and wrestling manager (b. 1934 )September 12 – Ricardo López - the "Björk stalker", committed suicide by revolver after sending a Sulphuric acid -filled letter bomb to Björk (b. 1975 )September 13
September 14
September 15 – Ottis Toole , murderer (b. 1947 )September 16
September 17 – Spiro T. Agnew , 39th vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973 (b. 1918 )September 22 – Dorothy Lamour , film actress (b. 1914 )September 25 – Richard Holt Locke , actor (b. 1941 )October 5 – Seymour Cray , computer scientist (b. 1925 )October 6 – Ted Bessell , television actor (b. 1935 )October 8 – Mignon G. Eberhart , mystery author (b. 1899 )October 14 – Laura La Plante , actress (b. 1904 )October 16 – Jason Bernard , actor (b. 1938 )October 28 – Morey Amsterdam , comic actor (b. 1908 )November 2 – Eva Cassidy , jazz/blues singer-guitarist (b. 1963 )November 5 – Eddie Harris , jazz saxophonist (b. 1934 )November 11 – Yaki Kadafi , rapper (b. 1977 )November 15 – Alger Hiss , diplomat and perjurer (b. 1904 )November 22 – Mark Lenard , television actor (b. 1924 )November 26 – Paul Rand , graphic designer (b. 1914 )November 27 – Gertrude Blanch , mathematician (b. 1897 )November 28 – Don McNeill , tennis player (b. 1918 )November 30 – Tiny Tim , falsetto singer and ukulele player (b. 1932 )December 6 – Pete Rozelle , American football official (b. 1926 )December 8 – Howard Rollins , African American actor (b. 1950 )December 18 – Irving Caesar , lyricist (b. 1895 )December 20 – Carl Sagan , cosmologist (born 1934 )December 28 – Lyman S. Ayres II , businessman (b. 1908 )December 30
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"The Federal Protective Service arrested 11 protesters Wednesday in..." , United Press International , retrieved November 19, 2022
^ Whitney, Craig R.From Allies, U.S. Hears Mild Applause or Silence ,(September 4, 1996) New York Times
^ Lin, Carol (2001-07-03). "CrossLink International Sees $3.5 Million in Medical Supplies Go Up in Smoke" . CNN . Retrieved June 5, 2009 . ^ "Record Maximum Annual Precipitation by State" (PDF) .^ Zenko, Micah (3 August 2010). Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World ISBN 978-0-8047-7190-0 ^ "Mary CAIN | Profile" . worldathletics.org . Retrieved 3 May 2020 .^ "Watch Fifth Harmony Sing Happy Birthday to Normani Hamilton" . Billboard . May 31, 2016. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .^ "Simone Manuel" . USA Swimming . Archived from the original on November 4, 2016. DOB: August 2, 1996 ^ "Gene Kelly | Biography, Movies, Songs, Singin' in the Rain, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 17 May 2021 .^ Smallwood, Bill (March 16, 1947). "Delightful Side". Los Angeles Sentinel . p. 17. ProQuest 562108876 . Billye ※ Yarbo and Nat Cole both birthday on the 17th. ^ 1940 United States Federal Census Year: 1940; Census Place: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Roll: m-t0627-00416; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 60-362
^ "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLWM-FFV7 : 13 July 2017), Lillian M Yarbo, 12 Jun 1996, King, Washington, United States; from the Department of Health, Death Index, 1907-1960; 1965-2014, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives (https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Collections/TitleInfo/472 : n.d.); Citing Washington State Department of Health.
^ "Ella Fitzgerald | Biography, Music, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 14 February 2020 .^ Eric Pace (21 October 1996). "Jason Bernard, 58, an Actor In Television Films and Series" The New York Times . Retrieved 2 October 2021 .
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