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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in September 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 September 1996: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of September 1996?

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 Representatives of 71 nations sign 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.
05 Sep 1996 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.