Today in History for June 1996

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 54 of 54

1st - MTV Movie Awards
1st - Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
2nd - 50th Tony Awards: Master Class & Rent win
2nd - 51st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
2nd - 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
5th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis TN on WMFS 92.9 FM
7th - Julia & Noah wed on "All My Children"
8th - 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96
8th - 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)
8th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
8th - Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v Hampshire
8th - Lloyd & Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex
8th - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
8th - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
9th - 66th French Mens Tennis: Yevgeny Kafelnikov beats M Stich (76, 75, 76)
9th - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
9th - Sunday League cricket game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311
10th - 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
10th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM
Tennis Player Steffi Graf 10th - Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
10th - Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games
10th - Colo Avalanche sweeps Fla Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods
11th - Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president
12th - 3 Phila Fed Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet
12th - Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women & Asians
13th - Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
13th - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
14th - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
14th - Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
15th - IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200
16th - 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
16th - 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
16th - 96th US Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC
16th - Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
17th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse NY on WAQX 95.7 FM
18th - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
20th - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space
22nd - 29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain & Ireland wins 11-6
22nd - Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title
22nd - Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut
23rd - "Tartuffe: Born Again" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 29 perfs
23rd - Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
23rd - Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
25th - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
26th - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
Actor Eddie Murphy 28th - "Nutty Professor," starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA
28th - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
29th - Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
29th - Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
30th - "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 perfs
30th - "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 perfs
30th - "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
30th - Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss Renaissance USA
30th - Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 2 of 2

15th - Cedric Pioline, Neuilly/Seine France, tennis pro (US open final-93)
23rd - Charlie Jones, British actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

8th - Lyricist and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager (52) weds former chairman of Warner Bros. Robert Daly (60) in Bel Air, California
16th - Soap opera actress-singer Kassie Wesley (35) weds James De Paiva (39) in Morganfield, Kentucky
22nd - "Full House" actress Candace Cameron (20) weds Montreal Canadiens hockey player Valeri Bure (22) at the Church of the Valle in Van Nuys, California
23rd - Five-time Olympic speedskater gold medalist Bonnie Blair (32) weds four-time Olympian Dave Cruikshank (27) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
23rd - "Amadeus" actor Tom Hulce (42) weds Italian artist Cecilia Ermini
26th - Actor Kiefer Sutherland (29) weds model Elizabeth Kelly Winn (34)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 94 of 94

1st - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48
1st - Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1st - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83
1st - Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40
1st - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
1st - Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41
2nd - John Alton, cinematographer, dies at 94
2nd - Leon Garield, writer, dies at 74
2nd - Peter Bird, ocean rower, dies at 49
2nd - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
3rd - Len Creed, bookmaker, dies at 79
3rd - Peter Glenville, actor/director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82
3rd - Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81
4th - Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies
5th - Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner, dies at 59
5th - Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78
6th - George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92
6th - Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57
6th - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88
6th - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70
7th - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70
7th - Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88
7th - [Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies at 91
8th - Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft), dies at 70
8th - Gerry Gomez, cricketer (West Indian captain played 29 Tests), dies
8th - Michael Fox, actor (Amos-Falcon Crest, Skinheads), dies at 75
8th - Percy Edwards, animal imitator, dies at 88
8th - Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79
9th - Edward Morris Bernstein, economist, dies at 91
9th - Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist, dies at 48
9th - Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
10th - Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89
10th - Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75
10th - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89
10th - Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies
10th - Uno Choyo, writer, dies at 98
11th - Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72
11th - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], actress (Gloria), dies at 90
11th - Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21
11th - Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69
11th - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer, dies at 49
12th - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), dies at 78
12th - MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83
13th - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist, dies at 60
14th - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91
14th - Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73
Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (15th) 15th - Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78
15th - Fitzroy Maclean, the original James Bond, dies at 85
15th - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88
15th - Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77
15th - Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
16th - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
16th - Mel Allen, American sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83
17th - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
18th - Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84
18th - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73
19th - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78
19th - David Schine, businessman, dies at 70
19th - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63
19th - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82
19th - Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91
20th - Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
20th - Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89
20th - Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96
20th - Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
20th - Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
22nd - James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul, dies at 65
22nd - Ray Lindwall, cricketer (228 wkts 61 Tests for Australia), dies at 74
22nd - Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81
22nd - Tertius Metcalf, businessman, dies at 63
23rd - Andreas George Papandreou, PM of Greece (1981-89, 93-96), dies at 76
23rd - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72
23rd - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge, dies at 98
23rd - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer, dies at 69
23rd - William Walsh, academic, dies at 80
24th - Quinton Hazell, businessman, dies at 76
25th - Nicholas John, dramaturge, dies at 43
25th - Ray Howard-Jones, artist, dies at 93
25th - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (b. 1914)
26th - Veronica Guerin, journalist, dies at 36
27th - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87
27th - Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85
28th - George Ghita Ionescu, academic, dies at 83
28th - Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68
28th - Piers Gray, critic/writer, dies at 49
28th - Ronald George Woodman, pilot, dies at 82
28th - Willard F. McMurry, musician, dies at 89
29th - Alexander George Ogston, biochemist, dies at 85
29th - Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54
29th - Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78
30th - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
30th - Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41
30th - Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
30th - Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76