Historical Events In 1996

Feb 23 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands

Feb 16 Gary Kirsten scores 188 for South Africa vs UAE at Rawalpindi

Feb 27 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India

Feb 29 Soyuz TM-23, lands

Feb 18 Tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya

Feb 02 Actor and dancer Gene Kelly dies at his Beverly Hills, California, home at age 83.

Feb 22 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit

Feb 29 Daniel Green is convicted of murdering the father of basketball star Michael Jordan during a 1993 holdup, and is sentenced to life in prison.

Feb 02 Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA

Feb 01 Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index breaks through the symbolic 5,000 mark for the first time, our Dow Jones

Feb 15 Prime Minister Jean Chrétien scuffles with a protestor disrupting Flag Day ceremonies

Feb 23 Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve

Feb 29 A Peruvian jetliner crashes in the Andes, killing all 123 people aboard.

Feb 06 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence

Feb 22 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice

Feb 24 Cuba downs 2 US planes

Feb 13 Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway

Feb 10 Minneapolis, Minnesota Timmins country singer Shania Twain draws a crowd of up to 20,000 fans for an autograph session at the giant Mall of America

Feb 28 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins

Feb 10 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov

Feb 13 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"

Apr 03 St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1

Apr 05 Marlon Brando makes anti-semitic remarks about hollywood on Larry King

Apr 04 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM

Apr 03 South Australia grab exciting draw vs Western Australia to win Sheffield Shield

Apr 04 "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances

Apr 05 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days

Nov 02 Ontario L'Orignal Railway (RailTex) commences operation over the former CN line between Glen Robertson, Hawkesbury and L'Orignal, Ont.

Nov 29 Volkswagen executive Jose Ignacio Lopez resigned on this day under charges of industrial espionage from General Motors, his former employer

Nov 25 America Online announced it would sell its WebCrawler search engine to Excite.

Nov 25 Buoyed by booming confidence in the dollar, as well as dwindling interest rates on U.S. Treasury Bonds, the Dow charged past the magic 6.500 point for the first time in history

Nov 29 The media reported that MTV Networks was demanding fees from online services that linked to their sites

Nov 21 CompuServe announced it would shut down its family-oriented service, WOW!, just eight months after it was launched

Nov 22 America Online agreed to provide a pop-up screen asking members to select a pricing plan.

Dec 01 A volcano erupts in eastern Zaire, spewing a plume of ash and lava into the air

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