Year 1996

1996 April 3

FBI arrests suspected Unabomber

1996 August 31

Iraqis strike at Kurdish enclave

1996 December 13

Kofi Annan named UN secretary-general

1996 December 5

Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female U.S. secretary of state

1996 February 1

At least 73 dead in Sri Lankan suicide bombing

1996 Januany 29

France announces end to nuclear tests

1996 July 12

Prince Charles and Princess Diana agree on divorce

1996 July 17

747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island; all 230 aboard perish

1996 July 25

Bomb mars Summer Olympic games in Atlanta

1996 July 3

Boris Yeltsin is reelected in Russian election

1996 June 25

Truck bomb kills 19 at U.S. base in Saudi Arabia

1996 June 6

China agrees to world ban on atomic testing

1996 March 20 et seq.

Britain alarmed by deadly cow disease

1996 March 4

Suicide bombers kill 59 in Israel

1996 May 11

ValuJet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed

1996 May 31

Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister

1996 November 12

Mid-air collision in India kills 342

1996 September 13

Iraq halts attacks on U.S. planes enforcing flight exclusion zones in north and south

1996 September 2-3

after warning, U.S. attacks Iraq's southern air defenses

1996 September 27

Taliban Muslim fundamentalists capture Afghan capital

1996

Nobel Prizes Physics: David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson

1996

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel$

1996

Nobel Prizes Peace: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos Horta$

1996

Nobel Prizes Economy: James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey

1996

Nobel Prizes Literature: Wislawa Szymborska

1996

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Robert Curl, Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, per la scoperta del fullerene

1996

Academy Award Best Director: Anthony Minghella, The English Patient

1996

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1996

Academy Award Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush, Shine

1996

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire

1996

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Binoche, The English Patient

1996

Academy Award Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Fargo

1996

Academy Award Best Picture: The English Patient

1996

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (6-3, 7-5)

1996

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Seattle Super Sonics (4-2)

1996

Football XXIX Super Bowl: Dallas Cowboys b. Pittsburgh Steelers (27-17)

1996

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Richard Krajicek d. MaliVai Washington (6-3, 6-4, 6-3)

1996

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Juventus FC (Italy)

1996

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXVI: Atlanta (USA)

1996

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-2 Atlanta Braves (NL)

1996

1996 Playboy cover

1996 January 10

Coldplay , Group Capricorn

1996 December 19

Marcello Mastroianni, actor (dead at Paris,France) (born 1924 September 28) Libra

1996 July 10

Alberto Rusconi , editore (dead at Milano,Italy) (born 1916 November 11) Scorpio

1996 June 14

Aurelio De Felice , Sculptor (born 1915 October 29) Scorpio

1996 December 20

Carl Sagan , astronomo,writer scienze fantasy (dead at Seattle) (born 1934 November 09) Scorpio

1996 July 30

Claudette Colbert , actress (born 1903 September 13) Virgo

1996 March 31

Dario Bellezza , poet, writer (dead at Rome,Italy) (born 1944 September 05) Virgo

1996 June 15

Ella Fitzgerald , singer (dead at Beverly Hills, California, USA) (born 1917 April 25) Taurus

1996 August 27

Francis Gregory Alan Morris , actor (born 1933 September 27) Libra

1996 February 05

Magnus , Fumettista (born 1939 May 31) Gemini

1996 February 13

Martin Henry Balsam , actor (dead at Rome,Italy) (born 1919 November 04) Scorpio

1996 October 12

René Lacoste , Tennista e stilista francese (born 1904 July 02) Cancer

1996 April 25

Saul Bass , Designer,movie director statunitense (born 1920 May 08) Taurus