Timeline 1996 C: June
Return to home
1996 Jun 1, An
estimated 200,000 participants, most of them schoolchildren, gathered
at the Lincoln Memorial to protest government cuts for social and
educational programs.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1996 Jun 1, A nine-dish array of
radio telescopes was dedicated in Shasta Ct., Ca. at Berkeley’s Hat
Creek Observatory. It has already detected large organic molecules,
including a hint of the amino acid glycene, in gas clouds near the
center of the Earth’s Milky Way galaxy.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 1, The bodies of Julianne
Williams (24) and Laura Winans (26) were found in Shenandoah National
Park, Va., a week after they were last seen alive. Their hands were
bound and their throats were slashed. Darrel David Rice was indicted
for the murders along with hate charges on Apr 10, 2002.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A15)
1996 Jun 1, In Singapore the
government passed a Maintenance of Parents Law.
(WSJ, 9/17/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 1-30, The 7th annual
National Accordion Awareness month.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.B8)
1996 Jun 2, "Rent," "Bring in 'da
Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" and "The King and I" dominated the 1996 Tony
Awards, each winning four prizes.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1996 Jun 2, Fire-fighters began
battling a blaze in Alaska that spread to 64 sq. mls after five days 50
miles from Anchorage.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 2, In the Czech Republic
the center-right coalition of premier Vaclav Klaus lost its majority in
parliamentary elections.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 2, Sergio Palacios Cruz
and another contra rebel were killed near the village of Zapote Dudu by
the Nicaraguan army.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C16)
1996 Jun 2, Separatists in
northern Italy celebrated their growing campaign to split off from the
south on the 50th anniversary of the Italian republic. Umberto Bossi is
the head of the Northern League and founder of the self-declared
Republic of Padania. At a rally in Pontida, near Milan, ministers in
Bossi’s "government" swore allegiance to Padania, a name derived from
the valley of the Po. Their proposed republic includes everything from
Florence to the Alps.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A12)(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 2, In Bangkok, Thailand,
voters elected Pichit Rattakul, an independent environmentalist, as
mayor. The city is one of the most polluted in the world.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 2, A list of the
countries that are considered the most corrupt by international
business people had the following top ten: Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya,
Bangladesh, China, Cameroon, Venezuela, Russia, India and Indonesia.
The top ten least corrupt were New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland,
Canada, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Australia.
The US was judged 15th least corrupt, worse than Israel but better than
Austria.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 3, The FBI pulled the
plug on electricity at the Freemen ranch in Montana in an attempt to
persuade the occupants to negotiate an end to the 71-day-old standoff.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1996 Jun 3, During joint war games
in the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer mistakenly shot down an American
attack plane; two Navy aviators ejected safely.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1996 Jun 3, The Rising Star
Baptist Church in Greensboro, Ala., burned down. Arson was suspected
and investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 3, In the Ukraine a
hepatitis epidemic has hospitalized nearly 3,000 residents of
Sevastopol so far this year. Also all nuclear weapons have been
transferred to Russia for dismantling. The US paid $267 mil for the
removal.
(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. B6D)(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. A1)
1996 Jun 3, In Chad Pres. Idriss
Deby led 15 candidates in the upcoming first multiparty elections.
(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. A1)
1996 Jun 3, A recent announcement
was made that Hughes Electronics will take over the Indianapolis Naval
Air Warfare Center. The NAWC made the bombsights that helped win WW II.
(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. A14)
1996 Jun 3, The government of
Bahrain said that 29 militants confessed last month to be trained by
Iran to topple the ruling Al Khalifa family and install a Shiite Muslim
government.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 3, Turkish soldiers shot
and killed a Greek Cypriot soldier in the no-man’s zone of Cyprus.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 4, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin, campaigning for re-election, indulged in a bit of
onstage boogie at a pop concert for young voters.
(AP, 6/4/97)
1996 Jun 4, US and French
officials signed a secret agreement to share nuclear weapons
information and facilitate joint work between scientists.
(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 4, The Organization of
American States criticized the US over the extension of the economic
embargo against Cuba with 32 co-sponsors. The US was the sole dissenter.
(SFC, 6/6/96, C2)
1996 Jun 4, NATO foreign ministers
approved plans to shift focus toward intervention in small regional
conflicts and away from containing Russia, its primary focus for 47
years.
(WSJ, 6/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 4, In Burundi three
Swiss Red Cross workers were ambushed and killed while delivering
supplies near the village of Mugina. The Tutsi-dominated Uprona Party
denied any role and said the killings were the work of gangs of the
Coalition for the Defense of Democracy, the main Hutu rebel group.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C16)(SFC, 6/6/96,
p.C3)
1996 Jun 4, The European Space
Agency Ariane 5 rocket was destroyed when it went off course during
take-off from Kourou, French Guiana. The $7 billion rocket had taken 10
years to develop and was to be capable of carrying 7.6 tons into orbit.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C16)
1996 Jun 4, A report on China
focused on tens of millions of people suffering from iodine deficiency.
The effects of the deficiency has led to stunted lives and intellects.
Where goiter and cretinism are not visibly apparent, chronic mental and
physical fatigue and some degree of mental impairment was widespread.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A13)
1996 Jun 4, In Nigeria Kudirat
Abiola, wife of imprisoned opposition leader Moshood Abiola, was shot
and killed by 6 gunmen near her home in Lagos.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C2)
1996 Jun 5, Joseph Waldholtz, the
ex-husband of U.S. Rep. Enid Greene, R-Utah, pleaded guilty to
providing his wife false information for her taxes and to falsifying
spending reports from her congressional campaign.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1996 Jun 5, 2001 A Medicare report
predicted that the federal health system for the elderly would be
bankrupt by the year 2001.
(WSJ, 6/5/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 5, P. Terzian reviewed:
"Ain’t You Glad You Joined the Republicans," by John C. Batchelor. The
book is an anecdotal history of the Republican Party.
(WSJ, 6/5/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 5, Anglican Church
leaders chose Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane to succeed Desmond Tutu as the
archbishop for southern Africa.
(SFC, 6/6/96, C3)
1996 Jun 5, The European
Commission decided to ease the ban on British exports over mad cow
disease.
(SFC, 6/6/96, C1)
1996 Jun 5, On World Environment
Day 210,000 hectares on the Masoala Peninsula of Madagascar were
proclaimed a national park, the 6th on the island.
(SFC, 6/23/96, zone 1 p.5)
1996 Jun 6, The Senate narrowly
rejected a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as outgoing
Majority Leader Bob Dole and the Democrats clashed over deficit
reduction.
(AP, 6/6/97)
1996 Jun 6, A family of four
became the first persons to leave the Freemen ranch in Montana since
April, 2 children, their mother and common-law husband.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A10)(AP, 6/6/97)
1996 Jun 6, San Francisco became
the first city in the nation to sue the tobacco industry.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 6, John A MacLachlan of
Tulane Univ. led a study that showed that when pesticides are combined,
their potency may be increased a 1,000 times. The study was to be
published in the journal Science.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 6, Central Banks in
Britain, France and Denmark trimmed key interest rates.
(WSJ, 6/7/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 6, The UN appealed for
contributions to N. Korea because of torrential rains that that have
wiped out crops and left half-a-million people homeless.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A15)
1996 Jun 6, The military regime of
Burma banned the weekly meetings at the house of Aung San Suu Kyi.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A15)
1996 Jun 6, China agreed
conditionally to a ban on the use of nuclear explosions for civilian
projects.
(WSJ, 6/7/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 6, Cuba announced plans
to create free trade zones on the island.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A15)
1996 Jun 6, More than 70
Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Sudanese were killed when their ship caught
fire near Dahlak Island off the Red Sea coast trying to slip into Saudi
Arabia from Eritrea. 33 survived and were admitted to hospitals in
Massawa.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 6, Yeltsin ordered the
Russian Central Bank to transfer $1 billion to the federal budget to
fulfill campaign promises to teachers, doctors, and the military.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 7, The Clinton White
House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of House Speaker Newt
Gingrich's press secretary, former Bush chief of staff James A. Baker
III and other appointees from Republican administrations, calling it
"an innocent bureaucratic mistake." Lawyers for Craig Livingstone, in
charge of White House security, had just issued a statement that the
reason for the episode was an outdated Secret Service list.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A14)(AP, 6/7/97)
1996 Jun 7, The Matthews-Murkland
Presbyterian Church sanctuary in Charlotte, N.C., burned down. Arson
was suspected and investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 7, Max Factor,
hairstylist, died at age 91. He started the Max Factor makeup company
that was bought out by Proctor and Gamble in 1991. In March ‘96, the
Max Factor Museum of Beauty in Hollywood shut down.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A17)(www.deadoraliveinfo.com)
1996 Jun 7, David Rothenberg met
with his jailed father, Charles. The father had set David ablaze with
kerosene in 1983.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A17)
1996 Jun 7, IRA men killed one
police officer and wounded another in a robbery attempt in Adare,
western Ireland. Detective sergeant Jerry McCabe was killed with 15
bullets from a Kalashnikov. In 1999 Pearse McCauley and Kevin Walsh
were sentenced to 14 years in prison , Jeremiah Sheehy to 12 years, and
Michael O’Neill to 11 years. O’Neill was released in 2007. Sheehy was
released in 2008.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A11)(AP,
5/15/07)(AP, 2/4/08)
1996 Jun 7, Choi Jong, a South
Korean adventurer, completed a walking trip across the Sahara Desert
after nearly 7 months. He climbed Mt. Everest in the 80’s and went to
the North Pole in 1991.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 7, In Mali the
administration of Pres. Alpha Oumar Konare was privatizing and
encouraging investment, foreign and domestic. The leading radio station
in the capital, Bamako, was owned by Modibo Diallo.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 7, In Cambodia it was
reported that Pol Pot was gravely ill or possibly dead. Pol Pot died
1998.
(WSJ, 6/7/96, p.A11)(SFC, 4/16/98, p.A1)
1996 Jun 7, There was a bomb
attack on the Moscow vice mayoral candidate. Valery Shantsev, running
mate of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and supporter of Yeltsin, was wounded and
severely burned.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 7, Turkey’s Pres.
Suleyman Demirel again asked Islamist leader Necmettin Erbakan to form
a new coalition government.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 8, Editor's Note won the
Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/8/97)
1996 Jun 8, Declaring racial
hostility was behind recent church fires in the South, President
Clinton said in his weekly radio address he would devote whatever
resources were needed to "smother the fires of hatred."
(AP, 6/8/97)
1996 Jun 8, Australian
swimmer Susie Maroney began to swim the 110 miles across the Florida
Straits to Key West from Havana, Cuba.
(SFC, 6/9/96, p.A-5)
1996 Jun 8, China set off an
underground nuclear test blast. The Australian Seismological Center
reported a nuclear test by China having a body wave magnitude of 5.7, a
middle range explosion, in the Lop Nor area of Xinjiang Province. This
was the 44th test since 1964.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A11)(AP, 6/8/06)
1996 Jun 8, General Enrique
Salgado assumed Mexico City’s top police job and indicated that he
would appoint military officers to key public security posts. He also
said that he will stress citizen participation in forming policy.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C16)
1996 Jun 9, White House Chief of
Staff Leon Panetta, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said it was
wrong for an investigator to have obtained secret FBI files on 341
people, including prominent Republicans. President Clinton agreed with
Panetta that an apology was called for.
(AP, 6/9/97)
1996 Jun 9, The latest US
unemployment rate was 5.6%.
(SFC, 6/9/96, Par, p.9)
1996 Jun 9, Australian swimmer
Susie Maroney was pulled from the water about ten miles from the
Florida Keys, but officially in US waters.
(SFC, 6/10/96, p.A2)
1996 Jun 9, The court of Abu
Dhabi, UAR, acquitted 2 officials in the BCCI scandal but upheld
sentences against 8 and said they must pay $8.3 million in addition to
the original $9 billion in civil damages.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A9B)
1996 Jun 9, Police in southern
Guangdong Province in China have shut down production lines at 2
factories since May 30 that were making and processing video disks.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C2)
1996 Jun 9, Croatian police
announced the arrest of a Bosnian Croat, Zlatko Aleksovski, charged
with murder and mistreatment of Muslim prisoners. He is one of six men
charged with killing Muslims in the central Lasva Valley 3 years ago.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C16)
1996 Jun 9, In Russia a rebel
spokesman said that the two sides have agreed on the withdrawal of
Russian troops from Chechnya by the end of August.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C2)
1996 Jun 9, An article described
the pulsar B1257+12, 1,300 light-years away, measured by Alex
Wolszczam. Measurements indicate a planetary system nearby. Other stars
with planets include 51 Pegasi, 70 Virginis, 47 Ursae Majoris and 55
Cancri. It was later proposed that the evidence for the planets was
caused by energy waves circling their home star.
(SFC, 6/9/96, Par p.10-13)(SFC, 2/27/97, p.A6)
1996 Jun 10, The film “The Rock,”
starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, opened and took in $25.1
million nationally.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.E1)
1996 Jun 10, The Colorado
Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers 1-0 in triple overtime to win
the Stanley Cup in a four-game sweep.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1996 Jun 10, Rupinol, (Rohypnol),
also known as Rufi, is a drug that causes amnesia when mixed with
alcohol and is gaining popularity among young people. It is sold over
the counter in Mexico and other countries outside the US.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C4)(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, US scientists led by
David M. Mehringer reported that evidence of ascetic acid (vinegar) had
been found in a cloud of gas named Sagittarius B2 North, some 25,000
light years from Earth.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A4)
1996 Jun 10, Intel released its
200 Mhz Pentium chip.
(www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm)
1996 Jun 10, Iran offered to
mediate between Bahrain and its Shiite opposition and denied any
involvement in the recent plot to topple the government of Bahrain.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 10, In Italy the
center-left government announced a new privatization calendar that
included the sale of stakes in insurance, banking, and oil companies.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A9B)
1996 Jun 10, In Malaysia Irene
Fernandez, head of the human rights group Tenaganita, went on trial for
her 1995 published report on prison conditions of immigrant inmates. 71
deaths have been caused by alleged abuse. She was charged under a 1986
law that banned the publication of "malicious allegations" against the
government. Seven years later, she was sentenced to one year in prison
but appealed. In 2008 she was acquitted.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A15)(SFC, 5/29/96, p.A8)(AP,
11/24/08)
1996 Jun 10, A report on Mexico
estimated that 800,000 children under 14 worked in different sectors of
the economy. The Mexican constitution and federal labor law prohibits
the employment of children under 14. Based on a 1990 census, the Sec.
of Public Education estimated that 2.5 million children between 6 &
14 do not attend school.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C3)
1996 Jun 10, Hezbollah guerrillas
killed 5 Israeli soldiers and wounded 6 in a dawn ambush in south
Lebanon.
(SFC, 6/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, Arafat’s government
detained Eyad Sarraj, head of the Independent Commission for Citizen’s
Rights. Sarraj says the Palestinian Authority is corrupt.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun10, In Pakistan three
bombings killed 6 and injured 48 in Punjab Province.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, Yemeni troops put
down antigovernment protests in Mukalla, also the site of a 1994 civil
war. Court charges that police raped a group of women appeared to
trigger the protests.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, In Spain the new
center-right government introduced sweeping economic measures. Taxes
were eased on small and mid-size companies, savings and job creation
were encouraged, the powerful professional guilds were weakened and
various markets liberalized, and double taxation for large foreign
companies was eliminated.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A9A)
1996 Jun 11, Closing a
congressional career that had lasted 3 1/2 decades, Bob Dole said
goodbye to the Senate to begin in earnest his campaign for the
presidency.
(AP, 6/11/97)
1996 Jun 11, Five American Indian
leaders sued the federal government after it was learned that the
Bureau of Indian Affairs could not account for about 15% of an
estimated $450 million held for some 300,000 Indians.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 11, A trade pact between
the European Union and Algeria was passed along with an agreement to
provide $3.6 million to help pay for elections in Bosnia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A15)
1996 Jun 11, Formosa Plastic Group
of Taiwan led by Y.C. Wang was planning to build 6 thermal power plants
in the coastal province of Fujian in China for an investment of $3.8
bil.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 11, A rusty Russian
freighter carrying hundreds of Liberian refugees remained at sea after
Ghana refused to let it dock.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 11, A Chilean-based fruit
company signed a letter of intent to purchase Fresh Del Monte Produce
NV for $534 mil. A subsidiary of United Trading Company Desarollo &
Comercio SA of Santiago signed the letter. Mr. Cabal, a banker accused
in a massive self-lending scheme who fled Mexico in 1994, remains a
minority shareholder through a Netherlands Antilles fund called Trumpet
Vine where he and the state-owned development bank, Nacional Financiera
SA, placed an 8.5% equity stake in 1992.
(WSJ, 6/12/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 11, S. Korea pledged $3
mil in aid to N. Korea.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 11, A convoy of Chechen
rebel leaders was blasted by remote control bombs while returning after
negotiations with Russian counterparts.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 11, Lightning struck a
tank and started a blaze of 3 million gallons of gas at a Shell Oil
storage facility in Woodbridge, N.J.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 11, Federal agents
arrested 3 leaders and 15 members of the Genovese organized crime
family in New York.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 11, Scientists reported
the discovery of a new planet near the star Lalande 21185, the 4th
closest star to Earth, 8.1 light-years away. The nearest is Proxima
Centauri at 4.2 light-years. Analysis of the data indicates that the
planet is about the size of Jupiter and revolves around its star every
30-35 years.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 11, A bomb ripped through
a Moscow subway and killed 12 people.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A8)
1996 Jun 11, Vietnam’s Deputy
Foreign Minister Le Mai (1940-1996) died. He was a junior member of the
team that negotiated US withdrawal in 1973 and chief architect of the
recent campaign for diplomatic relations with the US.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.A25)
1996 Jun 12, Trent Lott of
Mississippi was chosen as Senate majority leader after Bob Dole stepped
down to run for president.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 12, A panel of federal
judges in Philadelphia blocked a law against indecency on the Internet,
saying the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe adults'
free-speech rights.
(AP, 6/12/97)
1996 Jun 12, The Mohave Desert
town of Hinkley, Ca., won a $333 million settlement from PG&E for
the leakage of high concentrations of chromium 6 from storage tanks
into the groundwater. The film “Erin Brockovich” (2000) was based on
the case.” In 2008 PG&E paid $20 million to settle the last in a
series of suits related to groundwater in Hinkley.
(SFC, 10/29/00,
p.A5)(www.salon.com/ent/feature/2000/04/14/sharp/print.html)(SFC,
4/4/08, p.B14)
1996 Jun 12, Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan said he has sent a team to Cuba to study the
country’s health and education systems. He praised the Castro regime
for the virtual elimination of illiteracy.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A9)
1996 Jul 12, In Spokane, Wa., a US
Bank branch was robbed a 2nd time and a Planned Parenthood office was
bombed. In 1997 three members of an anti-government militia were
convicted for the robberies and 3 bombings.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.C3)
1996 Jun 12, Ashley Taylor, the
lone minor (16) at the Freeman Ranch, left the compound.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.A4)
1996 Jun 12, Chechnya’s pro-Moscow
government refused to postpone elections for the local parliament as
called for in the recent peace talks.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C2)
1996 Jun 12, In Colombia the lower
house of Congress voted to absolve Pres. Ernesto Samper of charges that
his campaign was financed by drug traffickers.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C3)
1996 Jun 12, The Election
Commission of Bangladesh announced that the liberal Awami League of
Hasina Wajed won 126 seats, the centrist National Party 103 seats, and
the Jatiya Party 28.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C1)
1996 Jun 12, In Palestine, Eyad
Sarraj smuggled out a message from a Gaza City jail that said he was
being beaten and framed on drug charges.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C3)
1996 Jun 12, In Spain Judge Jose
Jimenez Alfaro lost most of his right hand when a letter bomb exploded
at his courthouse in Madrid. He had sent policemen to jail for Spain’s
"dirty war" war on Basque rebels in the 1980s.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C3)
1996 Jun 12, The UN passed
Resolution 1060, the 1st of many condemnations of Iraq's denial of
access to UN weapons’ inspectors.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A12)
1996 Jun 13, Bill Clinton, in a
speech endorsing a national effort against teen pregnancy, said: "The
other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem
of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to
decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held
accountable." [see Nov 15, 1995]
(www.zpub.com/un/billc-4.html)
1996 Jun 13, The US Supreme Court
ruled against racial gerrymandering. It was a reminder that states
cannot use race as the main factor in redistricting. The ruling struck
down four black and Hispanic districts in North Carolina and Texas. The
Supreme Court placed greater limits on congressional districts
intentionally drawn to get more minorities elected to Congress.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.A3)(AP, 6/13/97)
1996 Jun 13, The 81-day-old
Freemen standoff ended as 16 remaining members of the anti-government
group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch. Five Freemen
were found guilty in 1998 for various crimes linked to armed robbery
and possession of firearms. Four militants were convicted in 1998 for
plotting to defraud banks. Jurors deadlocked on six defendants.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A1)(AP, 6/13/97)(SFC, 4/1/98,
p.A2)(WSJ, 7/9/98, p.A1)
1996 Jun 13, Arizona Governor Fife
Symington was indicted on charges of making false statement to
financial institutions and using his office to free himself from a $10
mil loan guarantee.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A3)
1996 Jun 13, A federal grand jury
indicted Sun-Diamond Growers of California on charges of illegal gifts
to former agricultural Secretary Mike Espy and improper campaign
contributions to Espy’s brother Henry. The giant agricultural
cooperative and its officers have contributed more than $200,000 to
California Gov. Wilson’s state and federal campaigns since 1989.
Richard Douglas, former VP of Sun-Diamond Growers was convicted in 1997
of offering gratuities to Michael Espy in 1993 but was acquitted of
making illegal contributions to Espy’s brother.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A8)(SFC, 6/16/96,
p.B2)(SFC,11/26/97, p.A7)(WSJ, 11/26/97, p.A1)
1996 Jun 13, The First Missionary
Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma was burned in what appeared to be
another race-related attack.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A3)
1996 Jun 13, In Austria about $150
billion is deposited in 26 million numbered accounts in the country of
7.5 million people. Many of the accounts are attributed to new Russian
immigrants and gangs. The state prosecutor, Wolfgang Mekis, was put
behind bars for trying to extort $600,000 from Valentina Hummelbrunner,
the onetime receptionist of former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C2)
1996 Jun 13, A Washington Times
report said that Chinese M-11 missiles have been deployed in Pakistan
in the last few months.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A1,4)
1996 Jun 13, A new report in
Nature announced that guinea pigs are on a distant branch from rodents
and deserve a class of their own.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.A13)
1996 Jun 13, A Burundi army report
claimed that 50 Hutu rebels were killed in an attack on a training camp.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A16)
1996 Jun 13, Guatemala ratified a
UN pact on tribal peoples. The pact calls for respect of its indigenous
people, the Mayans, and consultation with them on decisions affecting
their economic and social development.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A16)
1996 Jun 13, An Indonesian DC-10
skidded of a runway at the Fukuoka airport in Japan and burst into
flames. 3 people were killed, but 270 others were able to flee the
burning jet.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C3)
1996 Jun 13, In Indonesia the
Supreme Court restored a ban on the magazine Tempo for publishing
stories critical of the government.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A17)
1996 Jun 13, A report from
Kuching, Malaysia, told of Borneo’s 2nd high tech plant being cut out
of the tropical rain forest.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A6)
1996 Jun 14, The FBI disclosed the
White House had obtained bureau background reports on at least 408
people without justification.
(AP, 6/14/97)
1996 Jun 14, Money Magazine ranked
Madison, Wis., as the best place to live among the nation’s 300
metropolitan areas.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.B10)
1996 Jun 14, A new medium priced
home in the US was priced at $135,800.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.B10)
1996 Jun 14, Two teams of
scientists announced the discovery of the human gene on chromosome 9
that may cause basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A2)
1996 Jun 14, In Belarus Victor
Gonchar, Lukashenko’s most active critic in parliament, was fired upon
by police.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 14, Leaders of Serbia,
Croatia and Bosnia signed an agreement to reduce arsenals of heavy
weapons.
(WSJ, 6/17/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 14, In Bulgaria
legislation was passed to give joint ventures at least 50% foreign
owned a five year tax holiday, and required that half of the forgiven
tax sums be invested in the same businesses.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 14, In Malaysia issues
that had blocked the building of the $6.02 billion Bakun hydroelectric
dam in Sarawak state on Borneo were resolved.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 14, Sumitomo Corp.
announced that it had lost $1.8 billion over the last ten years in
unauthorized trades done by head copper trader Yasuo Hamanaka. World
copper markets were thrown into turmoil following disclosure by
Sumitomo Corp. that a rogue trader had hidden multibillion-dollar
losses.
(WSJ, 6/17/96, p.A1)(AP, 6/14/97)
1996 Jun 15, The US Postal Service
began printing a breast cancer awareness stamp.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.B1)
1996 Jun 15, Mary Ashley
(1931-1996), video and performance artist, died in San Francisco. She
helped found the ONCE Group in Ann Arbor, Mich., and had been involved
in the "correspondence art" movement and the Fluxus group of artists.
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.A4)
1996 Jun 15, A truck bomb blew up
in a retail district of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200
people at the Arndale Center mall in an attack claimed by the Irish
Republican Army.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A1)(AP, 6/15/97)
1996 Jun 15, Ella Fitzgerald (78),
jazz singer -the "first lady of song," died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A1)(AP, 6/15/97)
1996 Jun 15, UN weapons inspectors
gave up after a 5-day standoff with Iraqi authorities over inspection
of 4 sites for documents and other material relating to weapons of mass
destruction.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 15, In Yemen heavy floods
hit the country and more than 65 people were believed dead and hundreds
made homeless.
(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 16, The Chicago Bulls won
the NBA championship, beating the Seattle SuperSonics in game six,
87-to-75.
(AP, 6/16/01)
1996 Jun 16, Sportscaster Mel
Allen died in Greenwich, Connecticut, at age 83.
(AP, 6/16/01)
1996 Jun 16, In Afghanistan a bomb
exploded in a Jalalabad market and killed 4 people and wounded more
than 20.
(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 16, Croats in Mostar
named Pero Markovic as the new president of Herzeg-Bosnia.
(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 16, Members of a Muslim
party beat former Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic during a northern
Bosnia political rally. Leaders of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia signed an
agreement to reduce arsenals of heavy weapons.
(WSJ, 6/17/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 16, In India monsoon
rainstorms battered southern India for 3 days and killed at least 85
people with 250 missing.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 16, IRA guerrillas were
caught making dozens of new bombs when police raided an arms factory
west of Dublin. Prime Minister John Burton made the announcement ten
days later.
(SFC, 6/26/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 16, Russian voters went
to the polls in their first independent presidential election; the
result was a runoff between President Boris and Communist challenger
Gennady Zyuganov. Yeltsin won the July runoff.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 6/16/01)
1996 Jun 16, In Zambia 15 soccer
fans were crushed to death and 52 injured during a stampede after
Zambia beat Sudan.
(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 17, ValuJet Airlines
suspended its flight schedule indefinitely after a federal inspection
found "several serious deficiencies" in the discount carrier's
operations. ValuJet resumed limited operations 15 weeks later.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A1)(AP, 6/17/97)
1996 Jun 17, Fires burned down
five more Southern churches.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 17, The John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation presented its annual "genius" awards
to 21 people selected by an anonymous team of talent scouts.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A2)
1996 Jun 17, In Liberia health
workers have dug up an additional 150 bodies, many of them headless,
along the beach at Mamba Point. Exhumations started 2 weeks ago and
about 500 bodies have been found and reburied.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 17, The US said it will
slap sanctions on $2 billion of Chinese goods if action is not taken by
the government against the manufacture of pirate compact disks, videos
and software.
(WSJ, 6/6/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 17, A World Health
Organization study said that more than 8 million babies die each year
worldwide before reaching their first birthday.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 17, The UN sponsored
Conference on Disarmament agreed to admit 23 new members, among them
Iraq, Syria, Israel, North Korea and South Africa.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 17, In New Zealand Mount
Ruapehu erupted.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A6)
1996 Jun 17, Sri Lankan troops
killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 18, In California Richard
Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, Calif., on all charges in the
1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10)(AP, 6/18/97)
1996 Jun 18, Federal prosecutors
in California charged Theodor J. Kaczynski, the UNABOM suspect, in four
of the Unabomber attacks He was indicted by a federal grand jury for
two killings in Sacramento.
(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10)(AP, 6/18/97)
1996 Jun 18, Two Army transport
helicopters collided and crashed during training exercises near Fort
Campbell, Ky., killing six and injuring 33.
(AP, 6/18/97)
1996 Jun 18, Heriberto Seda, a
28-year-old recluse obsessed with guns and the Bible, shot his teenage
sister in New York City. He later admitted to being the Zodiac killer,
guilty of murders from 1990. He was convicted Jun 24, 1998, and was
sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.C12)(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A3)(SFC,
7/23/98, p.A3)
1996 Jun 18, Bosnian Serb women
held 2 diplomats hostage and demanded action on 1400 Bosnian Serbs who
are either missing or held by Muslims and Croats.
(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A8)
1996 Jun 18, Netanyahu was
inaugurated as Israeli Prime Minister.
(www.jafi.org.il/education/jafi75/timeline8g.html)
1996 Jun 18, Boris Yeltsin named
Gen’l. Alexander Lebed to head the Security Council. Lebed had won
14.7% of the vote in Sunday’s election. Yeltsin also fired his defense
chief, Grachev.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 19, Chief executives from
seven states, police, state attorneys general and members of Congress
met with President Clinton at the White House to discuss ways of
stopping the recent torching of black churches.
(AP, 6/19/97)
1996 Jun 19, New York City police
announced that a shooting suspect in custody had been linked to the
"Zodiac" shootings that terrorized New Yorkers in the early 1990's.
(AP, 6/19/97)
1996 Jun 19, In Angola a new
national army began to be formed.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, A new mandated
manpower list revealed that the Honduran army is comprised of 12,115
troops, including 12 generals and 2,013 officers. Soldiers in Honduras
are not allowed to vote.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 19, The European Union
approved a British plan for wiping out "mad cow" disease.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, In Malaysia a court
order stopped work on the $5.4 billion Bakun Dam due to violation of
environmental laws.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, Mexico will repay
$4.7 billion of the $10.5 billion in US Treasury borrowings from last
year.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 19, A pending application
for membership in the International Air Transport Association by North
Korea could be accepted as early as next month.
(WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, Boris Fyodorov,
former leader of Russia’s National Sports Fund, was shot and stabbed on
a Moscow street. He had been arrested on drug charges last month. He
was also chairman of the National Credit Bank, which used tax breaks
that cost the government $2 billion, to import cigarettes and liquor.
The Sports Fund has ordered an audit.
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 20, The Clinton
administration announced it would veto the re-election of U.N.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
(AP, 6/20/97)
1996 Jun 20, Westinghouse Electric
agreed to buy Infinity Broadcasting for $3.9 billion.
(AP, 6/20/97)
1996 Jun 20, Scientists announced
the identification of the co-factor involved in human AIDS viral
reproduction. Chemokin receptor-5, CKR5, is the name of the HIV
co-factor.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 20, The recent issue of
Nature reported that fossil bones from 130-120 million ago were found
in a jungle streambed in northeastern Thailand of a 21 foot
tyrannosaur. It was named Siamotyrannus isanensis. The finding added to
evidence that tyrannosaurs evolved in Asia.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.C12)
1996 Jun 20, In 1996 there were
allegations of kickbacks from a 1988 European Airbus jets sale to
Canada. Swiss Bank records were sought in a corruption probe. Former
Prime Minister Mulroney filed suit for being named in the scandal.
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 20, "Revolt Against
Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the search for a Postliberal
Order" by Ted v. McAllister was reviewed by Robert Devigne. It
discusses the modern political thinking wherein the search for
knowledge is directed by humanity to master its environment.
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 20, In Albania a court
convicted 3 top ex-Communist officials for deporting more than 70
dissidents when they headed regional Communist administrations. The
European Parliament urged Albania to hold another vote due to balloting
irregularities in the May 26 and Jun 2 elections.
(SFC, 6/21/96, p.A14)(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A13)
1996 Jun 20, China was to announce
the convertibility of its currency, the yuan, for trade, services, debt
payment and profit repatriation by foreign companies.
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 20, In Indonesia fighting
broke out when the army backed dissidents who wanted to oust Megawati
Sukarnoputri as leader of the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party.
Party members fought with troops in Jakarta in support of Megawati who
is seen as a threat to Pres. Suharto.
(SFC, 6/21/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 20, Yeltsin fired 3
aides. Alexander Korzhakov, head of his personal security force; Deputy
Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets; and Mikhail Barshukov, head of a KGB
successor agency.
(WSJ, 6/21/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 20, In northern Nicaragua
mediators began negotiations for the release of a group of about 30
election workers recently kidnapped by 15 re-armed contras and taken to
Honduras.
(SFC, 6/21/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 21, Pentagon officials
said American troops destroyed an Iraqi ammunition depot in March 1991
that may have contained chemical weapons.
(AP, 6/21/06)
1996 Jun 21, The $46 million
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art opened.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.D1)
1996 Jun 21, Good reviews for the
new animated Disney release of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 21, European leaders
agreed to gradually lift a global ban on British beef exports imposed
nearly three months earlier following a scare over "mad cow" disease.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1996 Jun 21, In Cambodia Khmer
Rouge guerrillas held dozens of sawmill workers for ransom and killed
14 of them with axes.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 21, In Nicaragua 33
election workers were released after being held for 2 days by re-armed
contras in Honduras.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A13)
1996 Jun 22, US Pres. Clinton
endorsed a national registry to track sexual predators as they cross
state lines.
(SFC, 6/23/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 22, At their first summit
in six years, Arab leaders meeting in Cairo, Egypt, urged Israel to
prove its commitment to peace by resuming negotiations without delay.
(AP, 6/22/97)
1996 Jun 22, It was reported that
scientists from Britain and Russia had discovered a freshwater,
underground lake beneath an Antarctic glacier about the size of lake
Ontario. The lake was believed to be a million years old.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A6)
1996 Jun 23, Congressional
Democrats unveiled a "families first" legislative package aimed at
winning middle-class voters and retaking Capitol Hill.
(AP, 6/23/97)
1996 Jun 23, The US defense budget
has dropped to $265 billion. The Russian defense budget has dropped to
$63 billion.
(SFC, 6/23/96, zone 1 p.6)
1996 Jun 23, Two newly discovered
planets were announced. One, 4 times the size of Jupiter, revolves
around the star Tau Bootes in the constellation Bootes in 3.3 days. The
other, about 60% the mass of Jupiter, revolves around Upsilon
Andromedae every 4.6 days.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A18)
1996 Jun 23, Andreas Papandreou,
Greek Socialist Party founder and statesmen, died. In 1998 his son
wrote his autobiographical novel "A Crowded Heart."
(USAT, 6/25/96, p.10A)(SFEC, 7/26/98, BR p.3)
1996 Jun 23, In the Philippines a
peace agreement was reached with Muslim rebels. Opponents fear being
under the administration of former rebels.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.C3)
1996 Jun 24, A jury in
Philadelphia awarded $1.5 mil to the survivors of the MOVE cult members
for the May 13, 1985, fire that killed 11 people and was begun from a
bomb dropped by police on their rooftop.
(USAT, 6/25/96, p.3A)(AP, 6/24/97)
1996 Jun 24, The US Post Office
issued its James Dean stamp for its "Legends of Hollywood" series.
(USAT, 6/25/96, p.1D)
1996 Jun 24, In Israel Netanyahu’s
government approved another Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 24, In Panama a coalition
of human rights groups called for early elections saying that the
president and his party have lost authority to rule. Attorney General
Jose Antonio Sossa said that the law for punishing individuals who
accept drug money in political campaigns was not yet in effect when
drug money went to Pres. Balladares.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 25, At least 19 Americans
were killed at a US base near Dhahran. Another 105 suffered serious
injuries from a truck bomb estimated at 5,000 pounds at the Khobar
Towers apartment complex adjacent to King Abdul Aziz Air Base. About
5,000 US troops served in Saudi Arabia. US, French and British aircraft
resumed flying 100 missions per day over southern Iraq from Saudi
Arabia. In 1997 intelligence information tied a senior Iranian
intelligence officer to Hani Abd Rahim Sayegh, a man who fled Saudi
Arabia shortly after the bombing. In 1999 the US threatened was set to
deport Hani al-Sayegh to Saudi Arabia. Sayegh feared torture and asked
for US asylum. Sayegh was deported Oct 10. In 2000 Ahmad Behbahani told
a 60 Minutes journalist from a refugee camp in Turkey that he proposed
the Pan Am operation and coordinated the 1996 bombing of the Khobar
Towers in Saudi Arabia. In 2001 13 Saudis and one Lebanese man were
indicted for the bombing that killed 19 American airmen and wounded
nearly 400 others. In 2006 a US judge ruled that Iran financed the
bombing and owes families of those killed $254 million.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A22)(SFEC, 4/13/97, p.A14)(WSJ,
10/5/99, p.A10)(SFC, 10/12/99, p.C16)(SFC, 6/5/00, p.A9)(SFC, 6/22/01,
p.A1)(WSJ, 12/23/06, p.A1)
1996 Jun 25, Later reports said
that Osama bin Laden, an exiled Saudi billionaire, bankrolled the
bombing of the US base that killed 19 US servicemen. He was an advocate
of strict Islamic rule and had said that he would campaign to overthrow
the Saudi royal family. He had lived in the Sudan for 5 1/2 years and
recently moved to Afghanistan and was accepted by the Taliban. In 1998
a senior Saudi official absolved Iran of any involvement in the
bombing. In 2000 it was reported that the Bin Laden family firm was
awarded the contract to rebuild the Khobar Towers.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A17)(SFC, 5/23/98, p.A12)(SFC,
11/18/00, p.A12)
1996 Jun 25, A report stated that
China had declared that foreign movies on TV can’t run for more than 36
minutes between 6 and 10 p.m.
(WSJ, 6/25/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 25, Yeltsin fired 7 top
generals and ordered a pullout from Chechnya.
(WSJ, 6/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 26, President
Clinton and leaders of the world's other industrial powers gathered in
Lyon, France, for their annual economic summit.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1996 Jun 26, The Supreme Court
ordered the Virginia Military Academy to admit women or forgo state
support.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1996 Jun 26, Former White House
counsel Bernard Nussbaum took the blame for the FBI files controversy;
White House security chief Craig Livingstone resigned.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1996 Jun 26, The US Supreme court
gave political parties a free speech right to spend more money for
candidate promotion. The vote struck down a limit on party spending
enacted after Watergate in 1974.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 26, The US Senate
Science, Technology and Space subcommittee sent a live audio feed over
the Internet for the first time. The proceedings were on on-line
commerce and encryption software.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 26, The $1.6 billion
Galileo spacecraft was expected to fly to within 527 miles of Ganymede,
the largest moon of Jupiter. It was scheduled to photograph Jupiter and
four of its 16 moons.
(USAT, 6/25/96, p.3A)
1996 Jun 26, J. Lee Rankin,
solicitor general under Pres. Eisenhower, died. He presided over the
Brown vs. Board of Education case and served as chief council to the
Warren Commission.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.B6)
1996 Jun 26, In Afghanistan
guerrilla leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, head of Hezbi-Islami, having been
eliminated as a military power, signed a peace pact with Rabbani, and
returned to Kabul to rule as prime minister. Hekmatyar was a member of
the dominant Pashtun group, unlike Rabanni and military commander Ahmad
Shah Massoud who belong to the Tajik ethnic group. The Taliban militia
launched an assault that killed 54 and wounded 118 people.
(WSJ, 6/27/96, p.A1)(SFC, 9/23/96,
A12)(www.afghan-web.com/history/)
1996 Jun 26, In London a running
battle erupted after Germany defeated England on penalties in the
European soccer championships. 70 people were injured and 200 were
arrested.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 26, Earl Spencer, brother
of Princess Diana, sold four of his titles to help finance the family’s
country estate. He sold the title "Lordship of Wimbledon" for $336,450.
It had been in the family since 1744. Other titles for sale included
The Manors of Upper Bodington, Newland Squillers and Theddingworth.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.F3)
1996 Jun 26, In Dublin, Ireland,
reporter Veronica Guerin, who covered the city’s crime world, was shot
and killed at a traffic light ambush by 2 men on motorcycle. In Nov,
1998, Paul "Hippo" Ward (34) was convicted for the murder and sentenced
to life in prison. John Gilligan and Brian Meehan also faced murder
charges. Meehan (34), king of the Dublin cannabis dealers, was
convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1999. Meehan received an
additional 47 years for drug dealing and weapons possession.
(USAT, 6/27/96, p.10A)(SFC, 11/28/98, p.A12)(SFC,
7/30/99, p.D3)
1996 Jun 26, At least 30 children
died of acute kidney failure after taking contaminated liquid
acetaminophen made by a company in Haiti. Another 38 were being treated
for acute kidney failure. Glycerin from China was contaminated with
diethylene glycol as it was shipped to Haiti. It was then used in
children's medication that killed 86 people from 1995-1996.
(SFC, 6/26/96, p.A9)(AP, 10/27/06)
1996 Jun 26, Palestinian
guerrillas ambushed Israeli soldiers in the Jordan Valley. They killed
3 and wounded 2.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 27, President Clinton and
other Group of Seven leaders meeting in Lyon, France, pledged
solidarity against terrorism following a truck bombing in Saudi Arabia
that killed 19 Americans.
(AP, 6/27/97)
1996 Jun 27, A Dallas police
officer was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill football star
Michael Irvin; Johnnie Hernandez later pleaded guilty to solicitation
of capital murder. He was sentenced to serve two concurrent six-year
prison terms, and was paroled in 1998.
(AP, 6/27/06)
1996 Jun 27, The GM North
Tarrytown Assembly Plant in NY produced its last minivan prior to
closure for the remaining 2,100 workers.
(WSJ, 6/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 27, A team of scientists
using the Hubble space telescope believe that they have identified
galaxies that were formed 14-7.5 Billion years ago. The images, called
the Hubble Deep Field, were made in Dec. and released in Jan.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 27, Anne Marie Fahey
(30), the secretary of Gov. Thomas Carper, disappeared from Wilmington
after dining at a Philadelphia restaurant with Thomas Capano. Capano, a
prominent lawyer who had dated Fahey, was later accused of her murder
based on testimony from his two brothers, who had helped him dispose
the body. In 1998 Capano admitted that he disposed Fahey’s body but
insisted that her death was an accident. In 1998 Capano testified that
Fahey was shot accidentally by former mistress Deborah MacIntyre, who
denied the charge. Capano was convicted by a jury on Jan 17, 1999. On
Mar 16, 1999, Capano was sentenced to death.
(SFEC,12/14/97, p.A4)(SFEC, 10/5/98, p.A5)(SFC,
10/27/98, p.A2)(SFC, 12/22/98, p.A2)(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A2)(SFC, 3/17/99,
p.A2)
1996 Jun 27, Albert R. "Cubby"
Broccoli (87), film producer, died. Together with Harry Saltzman,
Broccoli produced the James Bond series of films. His forbears in Italy
invented the broccoli vegetable by crossing Italian rabe with
cauliflower.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.B6)(MC, 6/27/02)
1996 Jun 27, Mollie Beattie
(1947-1996), head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service from 1993, died.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.B6)
1996 Jun 27, A report from London
said that the British Library had acquired Buddhist texts that date
back as early as the 2nd cent AD. The texts were believed to be part of
the canon of the Sarvastivadin sect, which dominated Gandhara, now
north Pakistan and east Afghanistan.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 27, Gay marriages were
legalized in Iceland.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 27, A report from the
World Health Organization said that South Africa has the worst
tuberculosis problem in the world and that drug-resistant forms
(XDR-TB) of the disease were spreading rapidly.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A12)(Econ, 2/24/07, p.58)
1996 Jun 27, In Turkey thousands
of troops poured into northern Iraq and killed dozens of separatist
Kurds.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 27, Ugandans voted for a
new parliament. 814 candidates ran as individuals.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 28, The Citadel voted to
admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South
Carolina military school.
(AP, 6/28/97)
1996 Jun 28, General Motors
planned to build cars in Silesia, Poland, after the approved creation
of a special enterprise zone and a ten-year tax holiday.
(WSJ, 6/28/96, p.A6)
1996 Jun 28, In the US a federal
advisory panel concluded that high doses of standard birth control
pills were safe and effective when used as "morning after" pills
following unprotected sex.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 28, The 20th Century Fund
reported that the American intelligence agencies spend $26 billion a
year on machines and less than $3 billion on people to analyze the
information collected by the machines.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Jun 28, A fire in a Portland
suburb apartment building killed 8 people. A 12-year-old boy initially
hailed as a hero for alerting people to the fire later admitted that he
had set the fire.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A7)
1996 Jun 28, Russian troops began
to pull out from Chechnya.
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.A13)
1996 Jun 28, In France immigrants
began a hunger strike at St. Bernard’s Church in Paris in protest to
new hard-line immigration policies.
(SFC, 8/13/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 28, The UN Security
Council voted to extend the peacekeeper force in Haiti for 5 more
months.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 28, Pres. Askar Akayev of
Kyrgyzstan hoped to develop the Kumtor gold fields with the help of
Cameco, a Canadian mining firm out of Saskatchewan.
(WSJ, 6/28/96, p.A6)
1996 Jun 28, In Mexico a new
guerrilla group, The People’s Revolutionary Army (EPR), disrupted a
political meeting in the state of Guerrero.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A8)
1996 Jun 28, In Turkey Necmettin
Erbakan became the country's 1st Islamic prime minister. His
conservative Islamic Welfare Party would have to put together a new
coalition government. Erbakan formed a coalition government and served
as prime minister until resigning a year later after mounting pressure
by secularist military.
(WP. 6/29/96, p.A1)(AP, 11/4/02)
1996 Jun 28, In the Ukraine Pres.
Leonid Kuchma pushed through parliament, called the Rada, a new
constitution. It established a clear right to own private property, and
Ukrainian as the only state language.
(WP. 6/29/96, p.A20)
1996 Jun 28, Vietnam’s PM Vo Van
Kiet, Party General Secretary Do Muoi and President Le Duc Anh were
expected to stay put amidst rumors of leadership changes.
(WSJ, 6/28/96, p.A6)
1996 Jun 29, U.S. allies backed
President Clinton's demand that Bosnian Serb leaders indicted for war
crimes be forced "out of power and out of influence."
(AP, 6/29/97)
1996 Jun 29, "Unlimited Access: an
FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House" by Gary W. Aldrich was
recently published.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A14)
1996 Jun 29, The Biograph Theater
in Washington DC closed after 29 years of classic film repertoire. It
lost its lease and the space was scheduled to be turned into a CVS
drugstore.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.F1)
1996 Jun 29, New York businessman
B. Thomas Golisano was considering seeking the presidential nomination
of Ross Perot’s new Reform Party. Also considering were Ross Perot and
Colorado governor Richard D. Lamm.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 29, Dr. Oliver Howe Lowry
(b.1911), molecular biologist, died. He found a way to prepare single
nerve cells for study, invented a micro-balance and wrote an early
paper on the measurement of protein frequently cited in scientific
literature.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A20)
1996 Jun 29, A Hutu rebel group in
Rwanda, People in Arms for the Liberation of Rwanda (PALIR), has
offered a $1,000 bounty for the head of every American killed in
Rwanda. A $1,500 bounty was offered for US Ambassador Robert Gribbin.
The group was unheard of until earlier this month.
(SFC, 6/30/96, B7)
1996 Jun 29, In Colombia masked
gunmen killed at least 16 people in Medellin. The criminal gang called
Los Victorinos feuding with leftist urban militias was suspected.
(WSJ, 7/1/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 30, President Clinton
paid tribute to the 19 killed and hundreds wounded in the truck bomb
attack in Saudi Arabia as he attended memorial services at Eglin Air
Force Base and Patrick Air Force Base in Florida.
(AP, 6/30/97)
1996 Jun 30, Forbes Magazine
ranked Bill Gates the richest man in the world with a fortune valued at
$18 bil. Warren Buffet, Omaha investor came in second with $15.3 bil.
Of the 447 billionaires counted by Forbes, 123 were Asian.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A2)
1996 Jun 30, Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic responded to international pressure to step aside by
handing his powers to an equally nationalist deputy.
(AP, 6/30/97)
1996 Jun 30, In Iceland Olafur
Ragnar Grimsson, a left-wing career politician, claimed victory in
presidential elections.
(SFC, 6/30/96, B7)
1996 Jun 30, The Irish Republican
Army confirmed that it had fired mortar bombs at a British army base in
the German town of Osnabrueck.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 30, In Turkey a young
Kurdish rebel disguised as a pregnant woman blew herself up in the
midst of a military ceremony and killed 9 soldiers.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 30, In Sao Tome and
Principe, a 2-island African nation, voters went 41% for incumbent
Miguel Trovoada and 39% for former Marxist ruler Manuel Pinto da Costa.
A runoff was scheduled for Jul 21.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.C3)
1996 Jun, In San Francisco 55
representatives of the world’s religions met for talks on organizing a
United Religions.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, Z1 p.3)
1996 Jun, Massachusetts passed a
first-in-the-nation law to stop doing business with companies that
operate in Burma.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun, It was reported that
Seagram Co. had begun running TV ads and would later run radio ads.
Liquor makers had agreed voluntarily to stop advertising on radio in
1936. TV advertising was halted in 1948.
(SFC, 10/19/96, D1)
1996 Jun, Millions of mayflies
invaded Toledo, Ohio, and caused a massive power blackout when they
smothered an electrical generation plant.
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.C1)
1996 Jun, The Warner Bros. Museum
in Burbank, Ca., opened.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.B4)
1996 Jun, Steve Allen was awarded
a lifetime achievement award "for cultivating the public appreciation
of critical thinking and science" by the Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
(SFC, 8/29/96, p.B3)
1996 Jun, Ken Wise of the Univ. of
Michigan was awarded the Discover Magazine’s Award for Technological
Innovation with his development of neural probes so tiny that they
could stimulate or record signals from single nerve cells in the brain.
(MT, Fall ‘96, p.19)
1996 Jun, Canada’s unemployment
rate jumped to 10%.
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A4)
1996 Jun, In Beijing 4 young
residents published "China Can Say No." It was very nationalistic and
soon became a best seller with a strident anti-American stance.
(WSJ, 9/19/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun, In mid 1996 Gen'l. Ji
Shengde, chief of Chinese military intelligence, ordered $300,000 to be
deposited in his bank account to subsidize secret contributions to help
re-elect Pres. Clinton. This information was later told to US federal
investigators by Democratic donor Johnny Chung.
(SFC, 4/17/99, p.A4)
1996 Jun, In India torrential
rains flooded 400 villages in the state of Rajasthan. Up to 500 people
have died in the monsoon season.
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.C1)
1996 Jun, In Iraq there was a coup
attempt against Pres. Saddam Hussein. This coincided with the placement
of 9 covert CIA operators on a weapons inspection team seeking to
examine compounds maintained by the Republican Guards.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.A9)
1996 Jun, In Israel Netanyahu
promised the Orthodox that his government would pass legislation
affirming that only Orthodox rabbis can perform conversions in Israel.
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C2)
1996 Jun, Yaron Ungar, an American
citizen, and his Israeli wife, Efrat, were killed as they drove home
from a wedding in Israel. In 2003 a US federal judge ruled the
Palestinian militant group Hamas must pay more than $116 million for
murdering two Jewish settlers near the West Bank seven years ago. The
lawsuit was filed in 2000 by David Strachman, a Providence attorney
designated by an Israeli court to manage their estate.
(AP, 7/3/03)
1996 Jun, In Japan the Diet gave
approval to set up a government council to formulate a proposal for a
new location for the nation’s capital.
(WSJ, 9/24/96, p.B12)
1996 Jun, In Libya up to 1,200
people died, including more than 200 guards, at the Abu Salim prison
run by the country's internal security agency. In 2009 Libya opened an
investigation into the incident. The killings took place amid
confrontation between the government and rebels from the Libyan Islamic
Fighting Group, an Islamist militant group which first announced its
existence in 1995.
(AP, 9/6/09)
1996 Jun, In Lithuania a free
trade agreement was signed with Poland. An agreement was already
completed with Slovenia and talks were to begin soon with Hungary.
(DrEE, 9/21/96, p.1)
1996 Jun, In Mexico near Alamos in
southern Sonora state the 225,000-acre Sierra de Alamos-Rio Cuchujaqui
Flora and Fauna Protected Area was established.
(NH, 4/97, p.38)
1996 cJun, In Northern Ireland
Billy Wright, while in prison, was expelled from the Ulster Volunteer
Force for refusing to recognize a cease fire. He formed the Loyalist
Volunteer Force which went on to kill 3 Catholics in 1997.
(SFEC,12/28/97, p.A10)
1996 Jun, The Vietnamese trade
deficit for the first half of the year was projected to total $1.77
bil.
(WSJ, 6/4/96, p.A18)
1996 Jun-Jul, In Kazakhstan swarms
of locusts threatened 2 million acres of farmland in the Atyrauz and
Kokchetav regions and along the Caspian Sea.
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.C1)
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