The BEST of '96 (from what I've seen.)
The year of when Tupac Shakur was shot & killed aged 25 after a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada. American astronomer Carl Sagan died aged 62 of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone marrow disease. Baba Vanga, "the Nostradamus of the Balkans," died aged 85 of breast cancer. Sublime released their final album, "Sublime," after Bradley Nowell died aged 28 of a heroin overdose. Domestic terrorist & former mathematics professor Ted Kaczynski, "the Unabomber," was apprehended. "The Crocodile Hunter" 1st aired on Animal Planet. "Hey Arnold!" 1st aired on Nickelodeon. Pokémon was 1st released as Pokémon Green & Red version video games in Japan, then later as a collectible trading card game. DJ Shadow released his debut studio album, "Endtroducing....."
North American Blizzard of '96. Western North America blackouts. Bangladesh tornado. Saguenay flood. Cyclone Andhra Pradesh. Biak & Lijiang earthquakes.
Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 hijacking. Croatia USAF CT-43, Faucett Perú Flight 251, Birgenair Flight 301, TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402, ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, Aeroperú Flight 603, TWA Flight 800, and Vnukovo Air Flight 2801 crashes.
Mount Everest disaster. Garley Building & Ozone Disco Club fires. Humberto Vidal explosion. Khobar Towers, Brahmaputra Mail Train, and Colombo Central Bank bombings. Dunblane, Port Arthur, and Qana massacres. Unsolved death of 6-year-old American child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, who was found murdered inside her Colorado home's basement.
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued "the Declaration of Jihad against the Americans Occupying the Lands of the Two Holiest Sites." President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser was ousted in a military coup ďétat. President of Niger Mahamane Ousmane was overthrown by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup ďétat. President of Burundi Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was replaced by Major Pierre Buyoya in a military coup ďétat. Siege of Sarajevo ended. Guatemalan Civil War ended. 1st Chechen War ended. 2nd Battle of Grozny. 1st Congo War began.
North American Blizzard of '96. Western North America blackouts. Bangladesh tornado. Saguenay flood. Cyclone Andhra Pradesh. Biak & Lijiang earthquakes.
Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 hijacking. Croatia USAF CT-43, Faucett Perú Flight 251, Birgenair Flight 301, TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402, ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, Aeroperú Flight 603, TWA Flight 800, and Vnukovo Air Flight 2801 crashes.
Mount Everest disaster. Garley Building & Ozone Disco Club fires. Humberto Vidal explosion. Khobar Towers, Brahmaputra Mail Train, and Colombo Central Bank bombings. Dunblane, Port Arthur, and Qana massacres. Unsolved death of 6-year-old American child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, who was found murdered inside her Colorado home's basement.
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued "the Declaration of Jihad against the Americans Occupying the Lands of the Two Holiest Sites." President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser was ousted in a military coup ďétat. President of Niger Mahamane Ousmane was overthrown by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup ďétat. President of Burundi Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was replaced by Major Pierre Buyoya in a military coup ďétat. Siege of Sarajevo ended. Guatemalan Civil War ended. 1st Chechen War ended. 2nd Battle of Grozny. 1st Congo War began.
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