Page 10: Historical Events In 1996

Aug 25   Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh, actor/lawyer, dies at 64.   

Aug 26   Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77   

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

Aug 28   Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50.   

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   

Aug 30   Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43   

Aug 31   David Scott, priest, dies at 72.   

Sep 01   Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98.   

Sep 02   Cyril Reuben, violinist, dies at 69.   

Sep 04   Sam Cook, cricketer (Gloucestershire slow bowler with one Test for England), dies.   

Sep 05   Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69   

Sep 06   William James Moyce, armaments scientist, dies at 82.   

Sep 07   Niccolo Castiglioni, composer, dies at 64   

Sep 08   Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102   

Sep 10   Ray Coleman, journalist, dies at 59.   

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

Sep 13   Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68.   

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

Sep 16   Andrew MacElhone, bar owner, dies at 73.   

Sep 17   Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63.   

Sep 18   Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73), dies at 77   

Sep 19   Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85.   

Sep 20   Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82   

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

Sep 21   John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42.   

Sep 22   Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81.   

Sep 23   Denis Dowling, baritone, dies at 86   

Sep 24   Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87.   

Sep 25   Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80   

Sep 26   Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75   

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

Sep 27   Mohammed Najibullah, politician, dies at 55   

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 29   Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea and Poison/Silence), dies at 73.   

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Jan 01   Arleigh albert burke: Us admiral,   

Jan 02   Sydney thompson: Rock climber,    

Jan 03   Geoffrey pardoe: Engineer,    

Jan 04   Ramon vinay: Operatic tenor/baritone,   

Jan 05   Jay morris arena: Inventor/pediatrician,    

Jan 06   Duane hanson: Sculptor,    

Jan 07   James holland: Artist/exhibition organiser,    

Jan 08   Francois mitterrand: Pres of france (1981-95),