Portal:Current events/July 1996

July 1996 was the seventh month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Monday, ended on a Wednesday after 31 days.

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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from July 1996.

July 1, 1996 (Monday)

The Northern Territory in Australia legalises voluntary euthanasia.
German orthography reform of 1996 agreed internationally.

July 2, 1996 (Tuesday)

In Los Angeles, Lyle and Erik Menendez are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

July 3, 1996 (Wednesday)

Boris Yeltsin is re-elected as President of Russia after the second round of elections.

July 5, 1996 (Friday)

Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.

July 8, 1996 (Monday)

Martina Hingis becomes the youngest person in history (aged 15 years and 282 days) to win at Wimbledon in the Ladies' Doubles event.

July 10, 1996 (Wednesday)

Harriet the Spy, the first film made by Nickelodeon Movies, is released in cinemas.

July 11, 1996 (Thursday)

Arrest warrants are issued for Bosnian Serb war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić by the Russell Tribunal in The Hague.

July 12, 1996 (Friday)

Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270,000,000 in damage ($446 million in present-day terms^[1]) to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.

July 13, 1996 (Saturday)

A Republican Sinn Féin bomb explodes outside of a hotel in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, disrupting a wedding reception and injuring seventeen people.

July 16, 1996 (Tuesday)

An outbreak of E. coli food poisoning in Japan results in 6,000 children being ill, including two deaths, after a group of school children eat contaminated lunches.

July 17, 1996 (Wednesday)

The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) is constituted.
Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people on board.
Joe Klein admits that he is "Anonymous", the author of Primary Colors.

July 18, 1996 (Thursday)

Howard Hughes is sentenced to life imprisonment at Chester Crown Court for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Sophie Hook at Llandudno twelve months previously. The trial judge recommends that Hughes, 31, should never be released. However, the Home Secretary set his minimum term at 50 years in 2002, meaning he is eligible for parole in 2046.

July 19, 1996 (Friday)

An F3 tornado 5.5 miles (8.9 km) away from the Westminster, Maryland city center injures three people and causes $5,000,000 in damages ($8.25 million in present-day terms^[1]).^[2]
The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, begin.
Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić resigns from public office in Republika Srpska after being indicted for war crimes.

July 21, 1996 (Sunday)

The Saguenay Flood, one of Canada's most costly natural disasters, is caused by flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec.

July 24, 1996 (Wednesday)

The Dehiwala train bombing kills 56 commuters outside Colombo.

July 25, 1996 (Thursday)

The Tutsi-led Burundian army performs a coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.

July 27, 1996 (Saturday)

The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills one person and injures 111.

July 29, 1996 (Monday)

The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved January 1, 2020.
^ "Westminster, Maryland". city-data.com.

[inflation-US-1] 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved January 1, 2020.

[2] "Westminster, Maryland". city-data.com.

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