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Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. He is also the grandfather of musician Theo Croker.
Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (born 1905)
Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (born 1908)
Dennis James was an American television personality, philanthropist, and commercial spokesman. Until 1976, he had appeared on TV more times and for a longer period than any other t…
Dennis James, American actor and game show host (born 1917)
Ronald Frederick Lane was an English musician and songwriter who was the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Small Faces (1965–1969) and Faces (1969–1973).
Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1946)
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American spree killer who murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni V…
American spree killer Andrew Cunanan murdered Jeffrey Trail, a former friend and a Gulf War veteran, who became the firs
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction…
The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in
Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to …
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champio
An earthquake struck northern Iran's Khorasan Province in the vicinity of Qaen on May 10, 1997, at 07:57 UTC. The largest in the area since 1990, the earthquake registered 7.3 on t…
An earthquake registering 7
The First Congo War, also known as Africa's First World War, was a civil and international military conflict that lasted from 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997, primarily taking place…
The First Congo War came to an end when Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaimed himself president of Zaire, which was also rena
The Sierra Gorda is an ecological region centered on the northern third of the Mexican state of Querétaro and extending into the neighboring states of Guanajuato, Hidalgo and San L…
The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, which encompasses the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a resul
In the afternoon hours of May 27, 1997, a large, slow-moving and intense F5 tornado caused extreme damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. Known most frequently as the J…
A destructive F5-rated tornado tracked through a subdivision of homes northwest of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people
The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater, was an American political controversy during the 1990s, surrounding the Whitewater Development Corporation, a …
Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. I…
A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an actress. Born in Miami, she grew up in Buenos Aires and London. She began pursuing an acting career at the age of 16. After a series of small …
Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress
The Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United Nations…
The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of
Taylor Townsend is an American professional tennis player. She is a former WTA world No. 1 in doubles, achieved on July 28, 2025. Townsend has won two major doubles titles, at the …
Taylor Townsend, American tennis player
Lorna Katie Fitzgerald is a British actress from Northampton. Her most notable role to date is that of Abi Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Since leaving EastEnders in Ja…
Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress
Caitlin Anne Parker is an Australian amateur boxer, who became the first female boxer from Australia to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze at the 2024 Paris Games. Parker ha…
Caitlin Parker, Australian boxer
The Jokela rail accident occurred on 21 April 1996, at 07:08 local time in Tuusula, Finland, approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) north of Helsinki. Four people were killed and 75 i…
Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub. L. 104–132 (text) (PDF), 110 Stat. 1214, enacted April 24, 1996, was introduced to the United States Congres…
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, kill…
Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, ki
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through coll…
The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after h
ValuJet Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route cra…
After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo
Helene Spilling Ødegaard is a Norwegian professional dancer. She is best known for her appearances on Skal vi danse, the Norwegian edition of Dancing with the Stars, and was the wi…
Helene Spilling, Norwegian dancer