Today in History for December 1996

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 41 of 41

1st - 85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2)
1st - Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India
4th - 7th Billboard Music Awards
4th - NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
4th - Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
5th - "Dreams & Nightmares," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
5th - Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement
5th - Portland's Jermaine O'Neal, 18, becomes youngest NBA player
6th - Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
7th - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
8th - "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
8th - Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
10th - Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
12th - Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
12th - Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou
13th - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays
13th - Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
14th - 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
14th - 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)
15th - Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
15th - Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
15th - Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
18th - Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe & England
18th - TV industry execs agree to adopt a ratings system
18th - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
19th - "Once Upon a Matress," opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
21st - Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
22nd - Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
22nd - Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
22nd - Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with Eng need 1 to win
23rd - 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
26th - Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
26th - The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force.
26th - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
27th - Carquest Bowl 7: Miami beats Virginia, 31-21
27th - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
28th - India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning
29th - "Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
29th - "Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after
29th - "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC
30th - Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 1 of 1

19th - Paige Speakman, England, born 19 days before her twin sister

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1st - Model-actress Angie Everhart (27) weds actor Ashley Hamilton (22) at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles
7th - Former Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker (71) weds retired Kansas GOP Senator Nancy Kassebaum (64) in Washington, D.C.
21st - Famous singer Lionel Richie (47) weds clothing designer Diane Alexander (30) at Metropolitan Club in New York
30th - "The Last Emperor" Chinese actress Vivian Wu (30) weds producer-director Oscar Costo (43) in Shanghai, China

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 88 of 88

1st - Barbak Karmal, politician, dies at 67
1st - Irving Gordon, songwriter, dies at 81
2nd - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76
3rd - Babrak Karmal, PM of Afghanistan (1980-81), dies
3rd - Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84
3rd - George Duby, historian, dies at 77
4th - Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
4th - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
5th - Peter Hall, folklorist/musician, dies at 60
5th - Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91
6th - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83
6th - [Alvin] Pete Rozelle, commissioner (NFL), dies at 70
7th - Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43
7th - Jose Donoso, writer, dies at 72
8th - Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46
8th - Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60
9th - Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87
9th - Alain Poher, French pres of European Parliament (1966-69), dies
9th - Anne Bolt, photo-journalist/trade unionist, dies at 84
9th - Faron Young, country singer, commits suicide at 64
9th - Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor, dies at 83
9th - Mary Douglas Nichol Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 83
9th - Raphael Samuel, historian, dies at 32
9th - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
10th - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34
10th - John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62
11th - Herbert Sally Frankel, economist, dies at 93
11th - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95
11th - W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82
11th - William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59
12th - Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner, dies at 70
12th - Jack Perry, businessman, dies at 81
12th - Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer, dies at 91
12th - Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77
12th - Vance Oakley Packard, writer (Hidden Perseuders), dies at 82
13th - Cao Yu, dramatist, dies at 86
13th - Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61
13th - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76
13th - Mae Barnes, singer, dies at 89
14th - Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92
14th - Norman Hackforth, broadcaster, dies at 88
15th - Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74
15th - Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83
15th - Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90
16th - Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader, dies at 85
16th - Joe Coral, bookmaker, dies at 92
16th - Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86
17th - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
17th - Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85
17th - Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101
17th - Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22
17th - Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61
17th - Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
18th - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74
19th - Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8½, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72
19th - Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78
19th - Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82
20th - Amata Kabua, Pres of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies
20th - Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62
20th - Roger Peacock), writer, dies at 76
21st - Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90
21st - Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96
22nd - Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81
23rd - Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85
23rd - Ronnie Scott, musician/club-owner, dies at 69
24th - Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77
24th - Nguyen Huu Tho, Pres of Vietnam (1980-81), dies
24th - Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47
25th - Derek Prouse, writer actor/director (Le Scandale), dies at 74
25th - Jon Benet Ramsey, Colo child beauty queen, murdered at 6
25th - Rupert John, gov-gen of Grenadines (1970-76), dies
29th - Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77
29th - Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86
29th - Mireille Hartuch, singer/songwriter, dies at 90
29th - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83
29th - Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89
29th - Robert Morris, lawyer, dies at 81
29th - Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67
29th - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85
30th - Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
30th - Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88
30th - Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89
31st - 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in US this year
31st - Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist, dies at 55
31st - David Sinclair, actor (Love & Hate), dies at 62
31st - Frederico Davia, opera singer, dies at 63
31st - Michael Roberts, historian, dies at 88
31st - Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, tropical mediciner, dies at 85