Britain and the World 1996

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	1996
Jan5	Yahya Ayyash, the elusive mastermind behind a wave of Islamic suicide bombings against Israel, was killed in Gaza by a booby-trapped cellular telephone.
Jan8	Zairian cargo plane crashed into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa, killing 350 people.
Jan9	Chechen rebels seized some 2,000 hostages in a southern Russian town and threatened to kill them if their demands were not met.
Jan12	Russian troops arrived in Bosnia at the start of the first joint operation with U.S. forces in a potential combat zone since World War II.
Jan29	Venice's opera house, named La Fenice or "The Phoenix," was destroyed by fire for the second time in its history.
Feb10	An IRA bomb exploded in London's Docklands, ending a 17-month ceasefire. The blast left two people dead and 40 injured and caused around (GBP) 150 million worth of damage to area, symbolic of the financial success of Thatcher's Britain. James McArdle was jailed for the crime but was later released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Feb10	IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.
Feb14	Dave Kaczynski, who recognizes the Unabomber's tenets to be similar to those of his brother Ted , informs FBI April 13 - FBI arrests Ted Kaczynski, suspected Unabomber, in his hut in Montana
Feb18	A member of the IRA blew himself up and wounded nine other people when the briefcase bomb he was carrying detonated accidentally on a double-decker bus in London's West End.
Feb29	Daniel Green was convicted in Lumberton, North Carolina, of murdering James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan, during a 1993 roadside holdup. (Green was sentenced to life in prison; an accomplice who had testified against him, Larry Demery, is also serving a life sentence.)
Mar12	The "Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act", better known as the Helms-Burton Act is signed into law by President Clinton. The act attempts to restrict trade with Cuba by other nations
Mar13	The Dunblane Massacre. The massacre was instrumental in getting the British government to ban the sale and use of handguns
Mar19	Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs
Mar20	The British government announces that at least ten people have died from a disease that is related to B.S.E. in cattle
Mar26	Mel Gibson's William Wallace biopic "Braveheart" wins five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Ten years later, the film was voted the worst film ever to win a Best Picture Oscar
Apr3	Commerce Department secretary Brown died with 34 others on a trade mission to Bosnia when their Air Force plane crashed.
Apr16	Queen Elizabeth's second son, Prince Andrew, and his wife Sarah announced they were to divorce after ten years of marriage.
Apr24	The Council of the PLO changes its Charter to omit the goal of destroying Israel
Jun15	A 1.5 ton van bomb planted by the IRA rips through Manchester city centre
Jun25	Car bomb explodes in Dhahra Saudi Arabia - 17 US soldiers are killed. Hizbollah admits responsibility for the bombing
Jul11	UN War Crimes Tribunal issues an order calling for the arrest of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic
Jul17	TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard.
Jul19	Mohammed Ali lit the flame that opened the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Jul27	A bomb exploded at Atlanta's Olympic Park during the Olympic Games, killing one woman and injuring 111
Aug1	Pravada stops publication
Aug13	Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicated there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons, heightening the possibility it could support a primitive life form.
Nov5	Democrat Bill Clinton was re-elected U.S. President, defeating Republican Bob Dole.
Nov15	The Stone of Destiny is finally returned to Scotland. This stone was traditionally used to crown new kings of Scotland in Scone Abby, Perth. John Balliol was the last Scottish king to use it as his coronation seat before it was moved to Westminster in 1296
Dec17	Tupac Amaru guerilla group takes 5000 hostages in Japanese Embassy in Lima

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