Historical Events In 1996

Mar 11 America Online agreed to use Netscape as the primary Web browser offered to its subscribers in a deal signed this day

Mar 10 NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel

Mar 13 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play

Mar 31 The sun set on eWorld as Apple pulled the plug on its struggling two-year-old online service.

Mar 22 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International

Mar 13 At Dunblane, a thirteenth century village on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, forty-three-year-old Thomas Hamilton bursts into the gymnasium of the Dunblane Primary School with four guns, and opens fire on a kindergarten class. Sixteen children and their teacher, Gwenne Mayor, are killed before Hamilton turns the gun on himself

Mar 03 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final

Mar 17 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup

Mar 26 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland vs Victoria)

Mar 31 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title

Mar 02 Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose

Mar 31 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast

Mar 06 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lamar

Mar 31 Wrestlemania XII Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title

Mar 29 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win

Mar 19 In Southern Xinjiang, China a 6.3 earthquake killed at least twenty-four people, 128 injured and more than 15,314 houses destroyed in the Artux-Jiashi area

Mar 24 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament

Mar 14 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi

Mar 19 Defeated in the federal election, former Australian prime minister Paul Keating announces his retirement

Mar 25 68th Academy Awards "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win

Mar 20 Erik &Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

Mar 07 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown

Aug 14 Ian Macfarlane is appointed new head of Australia's Reserve Bank

Aug 28 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, ending 15 years of marriage.

Aug 04 26th Olympic Summer games close in Atlanta, Georgia

Aug 29 A Russian plane carrying coal miners to work at a remote arctic island smashes into a mountain top, killing all 41 people aboard in the worst air disaster on Norwegian soil

Sep 28 Iron Road Railways, under the name Quebec Southern Railway commences operation over the following former CP lines in Quebec: Lennoxville - St-Jean Brookport - Wells River (VT) Farnham - Ste-Rosalie Jct Farnham - Stanbridge

Sep 21 John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette on Cumberland Island, GA.

Sep 14 York - Durham Heritage Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Uxbridge and Stouffville, Ont.

Sep 26 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to earth after six months in orbit aboard the Russian space station Mir

Sep 12 Rocky Mountain Railtours runs the longest passenger train in Canadian history. Three GP40 locomotives hauled 34 cars from Vancouver to Kamloops.

Sep 28 Iron Road Railways, under the name Quebec Southern Railway commences operation over the following former CP lines in Quebec Lennoxville - St-Jean Brookport - Wells River (VT) Farnham - Ste-Rosalie Jct Farnham - Stanbridge

Feb 21 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit

Feb 29 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup

Feb 08 US bookstore chain Borders says it will invest in a chain of bookstores in Canada; Ottawa will block the plan under the cultural exemption of NAFTA.

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