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Wilhelm Hansen died
This is a list of important events the occured during 1996. Exact dates are listed when known
July 1996- Jimmy Chaimberland, the drummer for the rock band Smashing Pumpkins, was arrested for posession of a controlled substance after the body of traveling keyboardist Jonathan Melvoine was discovered in a NYC hotel room. A week later Billy Corgan, D'Arcy Wretsky and James Iha would fire Jimmy saying that "Jimmy's insidious battle with drugs and alcohol has nearly ruined everything we are and stand for.
Sheryl Crow Album Banned From Wal-Mart
Sheryl Crow's self--titled album was taken off the shelves of every Wal-Mart department store in the continental US due to some lyrics that the major retail chain didn't like. Some of the head haunchoes at Wal-Mart were offended by the lyric: "Watch our children kill each other with the guns that they brought at the local Wal-Mart." A spokes person for Wal-Mart said that the particular lyric in question basically stated that Wal-Mart: "doesn't take care of their customers!" A spokes person for A&M records called the ban on Sheryl's album: "extreme" and they said that they would stand behind Sheryl
The unabomber, Kaczynski arrested in Montanna
US Military barracks destroyed in Saudia Arabia
A truck bomb exploded outside the barracks, killing 19, June 27th.
Flight 800 from New York crashes Killing all aboard, July 18th
The author of Primary Colors is revealed
The fictional account of a presidental election which resembled the Clinton election, was revealed to be written by Joe Klien of Newsweek.
Olympic Park bombing
After killing one person, a security guard named Richard Jewell came under suspicion initially but was cleared in the incident. No one has been convicted of setting the bomb.
Ebonics
The Oakland, California School board elects to recognize black english, termed Ebonics as a separate language
Princess Diana and Prince Charles are divorced. She has her 'HRH' removed
Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer
The Nintendo 64 is released. Gamers rejoice
Dolly was first created by cloning adult sheep cells, her birth was announced in 1997
Pamela Mason
Oliver H. Lowry
and
Alexander George Ogston
Passed away
Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
Happy Birthday! :)
I got married for the first time on that day - it was a Saturday and the day after Germany beat Sweden in the European Championships at Wembley.
I had a major quality dump,then went out bought a carry out and got rat assed in my back yard,happy days,happy birthday.
There's an app for that, Shows you all events that have happened that day.
1996 Was an absolutely awesome year! (For me anyway!)
It rained all summer a wash out.
Tupac died. And I was born!!! =]
It is my Birthday today, I was just wondering what happened in the year of my birth?
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