Page 10: Historical Events In 1996

Aug 11   Mel Taylor, drummer, dies at 63   

Aug 12   Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73.   

Aug 13   Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, soldier/polititican, dies at 86.   

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

Aug 15   Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86.   

Aug 16   Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31   

Aug 18   Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103.   

Aug 20   George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81.   

Aug 21   Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69   

Aug 24   Ahmed Bahauddin, journalist, dies at 69.   

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.   

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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),