31 events found for 1996
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, E
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-78 to conduct life science and microgravity research aboard the Spacelab module
The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U
American rapper Jay-Z releases his debut album, Reasonable Doubt
British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
A McDonnell Douglas MD-88 operating as Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 experiences a turbine engine failure during takeoff…
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven…
TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1,200…