Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches to Dock with Mir, September 16, 1996

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people. Date: June 15, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 15 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today) More…

In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Date: July 27, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 27 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1996Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches to Dock with Mir,…

Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. Date: August 14, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 14 📅 Events…

The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more. Date: April 18, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 18 📅 Events…

First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. Date: January 9, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 9 📅 Events on…