August 1996 calendar

August 1996
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1996.
The US president was Bill Clinton (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Sir John Major (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on August 1996: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of August 1996?

Events

01 Aug 1996 Michael Johnson breaks the 200m world record by 0.30 seconds with a time of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
04 Aug 1996 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies
05 Aug 1996 Dallas Cowboys play Kansas City Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico
06 Aug 1996 NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms.
09 Aug 1996 Boris Yeltsin is sworn in at the Kremlin for a second term as President of Russia.
10 Aug 1996 Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
11 Aug 1996 Thousand Clowns, closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs
12 Aug 1996 Breakfast on Fox premieres
13 Aug 1996 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
14 Aug 1996 A rocket ignited during a fireworks display in Arequipa, Peru knocks down a high-tension power cable into a dense crowd, electrocuting 35 people.
15 Aug 1996 Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.
16 Aug 1996 Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, Illinois. After a three year old boy falls into the deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female silverback gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue. Video of the ape's actions make her world famous.
17 Aug 1996 Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
18 Aug 1996 The San Jose Mercury News publishes Gary Webb's three-part series on the Reagan CIA's role in crack cocaine importation to fund the Contras.
20 Aug 1996 A thousands-large protest in Seoul, calling for reunification with North Korea, is broken up by riot police.
21 Aug 1996 Hughie, opens at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
22 Aug 1996 Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
23 Aug 1996 Osama bin Laden allegedly writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," his first open call for war.
24 Aug 1996 Microsoft releases Windows NT 4.0, with graphical user interface similar to that of Windows 95. The software comprises 16.5 million lines of code. Code-name during development was Cairo.
25 Aug 1996 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
26 Aug 1996 Chun Doo-hwan is sentenced to death, after being found guilty of mutiny and treason.
28 Aug 1996 Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants vs. Middlesex
29 Aug 1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
30 Aug 1996 The attempted raising of a 15-tonne section of the RMS Titanic fails, as 1,700 spectators, including survivors of the wreckage, watch.
14 Aug 1996 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.