The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress. Date: September 21, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 21 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock with the Russian space station Mir. Date: September 16, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 16 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people. Date: September 5, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 5 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK. Date: August 31, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 31 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. Date: August 29, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 29 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention. Date: August 28, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other…
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…
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. Date: August 6, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad. Date: July 29, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 29 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man. Date: July 28, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 28 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)