September 1996 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1996 Baltimore Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14
• 02 Sep 1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
• 03 Sep 1996 Nintendo releases the Game Boy Pocket portable game system in the USA.
• 04 Sep 1996 13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett and Smashing Pumpkins wins
• 05 Sep 1996 Summer & Smoke opens at Criterion Theater, New York City
• 07 Sep 1996 American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match.
• 08 Sep 1996 7 Guitars closes at Walter Kerr Theater, New York City
• 10 Sep 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed (it will be ratified 180 days after ratification by 44 Annex 2 countries).
• 11 Sep 1996 Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
• 12 Sep 1996 Ricardo López sends a package, containing an acid bomb, to Icelandic singer Björk with the intention to kill or disfigure her, and then commits suicide. The package is intercepted by the Scotland Yard four days later, before doing any harm.
• 13 Sep 1996 Phil Simmons scores 171 and takes 6-14 for Leics vs. Durham
• 14 Sep 1996 New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
• 15 Sep 1996 Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
• 16 Sep 1996 1st one-day international in Canada, India vs. Pakistan at Toronto
• 17 Sep 1996 Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colo Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field
• 18 Sep 1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
• 19 Sep 1996 Skylight opens at Royale Theater, New York City
• 20 Sep 1996 Leader of Pakistani opposition party Pakistan Peoples Party Murtaza Bhutto is killed during a gun battle with police.
• 21 Sep 1996 Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook
• 22 Sep 1996 4th Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 17-11 at St. Pierre Wales
• 23 Sep 1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach Florida
• 24 Sep 1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
• 25 Sep 1996 IBM launches OS/2 Warp 4, in San Francisco, California. New features include Java technology, voice recognition software, and Open32 Win32 APIs. Price is US$249; upgrade is US$149. It is the first operating system to include built-in speech navigation and recognition.
• 26 Sep 1996 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
• 27 Sep 1996 Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck
• 28 Sep 1996 1st ODI played in Kenya between home team and Sri Lanka
• 29 Sep 1996 Delicate Balance closes at Plymouth Theater, New York City
• 30 Sep 1996 Congress passes the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997; the Bureau of the Mint is renamed the United States Mint.

Famous Birthday

• Zendaya

  American actress singer and dancer.

• Pia Mia

  Pop Singer.

• Ella Purnell

  Movie Actress.

• Lee Hi

  South Korean singer.

• Colin Ford

  Movie Actor.

• Lili Reinhart

  Actress.

• Choi Young-jae
• Austin Abrams

  Movie Actor.

• Joy (singer)
• Sigrid (singer)
• Maxwel Cornet
• BroFresco

  YouTube Star.

• Megan Renee

  YouNow Star.

• Orion Carloto

  YouTube Star.

• Alex Jones

  TV Actor.

• Igor Saringer

  YouTube Star.

• Zendaya Coleman

  American atcress.

• Tegan Lane

  Australian missing infant; her mother convicted of her infanticide.

• Victoria Moroles

  TV Actress.

• Álvaro Mel

  Model.

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Famous Deaths

• Spiro Agnew

  American lawyer and politician, the Governor of Maryland 1967-69 and Vice-president under Nixon, 1969.

• Peter Phillips

  British royal family, the first born son of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.

• Dorothy Lamour

  American actress who made the sarong famous in her first film, "The Jungle Princess," 1936.

• Juliet Prowse

  Bombay, India -- Actress / dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear).

• Bill Monroe

  Rosine, Kentucky -- Country singer (Blue Moon of Kentucky).

• Leonard Katzman

  TV producer, dies at 69.

• Joanne Dru

  American actress (Born 1923).

• Mark Frankel

  Actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters), dies at 34.

• Gene Nelson

  Actor / dancer (SOB, Purple Hills, Starlift), dies at 76.

• Robert Croften Brown

  Politician, dies at 75.

• Jack Pepys

  Immunologist, dies at 82.

• Edward Greenall

  Businessman / sportsman, dies at 67.

• Ruggero Mastroianni

  Film editor, dies at 66.

• William Smith Monroe

  Bluegrass musician, dies at 84.

• John Cheek

  Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56.

• Cyril Reuben

  Violinist, dies at 69.

• Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux

  Designer artist / writer, dies at 102.

• George Patrick Reid

  Schoolkeeper, dies at 59.

• Niccolo Castiglioni

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Kenneth M Stewart

  Euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
2. Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
3. New Edition - Hit Me Off
4. Keith Sweat - Twisted
5. Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Fugees - Ready Or Not
2. Peter Andre - Flava
3. The Spice Girls - Wannabe
4. The Smurfs - I've Got A Little Puppy
5. Stretch 'N' Vern Presents 'Maddog' - I'm Alive