Mount Everest Blizzard Kills Eight Climbers, May 10, 1996
Date: May 10, 1996
Date: May 10, 1996
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 β π Other events on August 29 π Events on this day in 1996 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1996Provisional IRA Ends Ceasefire,…
A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14. Date: November 19, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 19 π Events on this day in 1996 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1996Pakistani President Dismisses Benazir Bhutto Government, Dissolves…
Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan. Date: December 27, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on December 27 π Events on this day in 1996 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1996ValuJet Flight 592 Everglades Crash Kills 110 May 11, 1996First…
The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting. Date: May 22, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on May 22 π Events on this day in 1996 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1996USAF Boeing T-43 Crashes Near…
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 β π 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 β π Other events on August 14 π Events…