What Happened In August 1996 In History

Historical Events for August, 1996

• 6th » NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 e.g ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
• 14th » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
• 22nd » Bill Clinton signs Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act known as welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
• 28th » Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
• 29th » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1996

• 1st » Katie Boulter, English tennis player
• 1st » Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
• 1st » Ellona Santiago, Filipino-American singer
• 7th » Tessa Allen, American actress
• 7th » Liam James, Canadian actor
• 10th » Jacob Latimore, American singer, actor, and dancer
• 12th » Torri Webster, Canadian actress
• 13th » Antonia Lottner, German tennis player
• 17th » Ella Cruz, Filipino actress
• 19th » Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player
• 21st » Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress
• 23rd » Cesar Flores, Canadian actor
• 23rd » David Gore, American actor
• 24th » Camila Giangreco Campiz, Paraguayan tennis player
• 26th » Bishop Nehru, American rapper and producer

Famous Deaths for August 1996

• 1st » Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1st » Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
• 1st » Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
• 1st » Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
• 2nd » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
• 2nd » Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 3rd » Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (b. 1939)
• 4th » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
• 8th » Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 8th » Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927)
• 9th » Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
• 11th » Tassos Isaac, Cypriot activist (b. 1972)
• 11th » Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
• 11th » Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)
• 11th » Baba Vanga, Bulgarian mystic (b. 1911)
• 12th » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908)
• 12th » Robert Gravel, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1945)
• 12th » Mark Gruenwald, American author and illustrator (b. 1953)
• 13th » António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1910)
• 13th » David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 14th » Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 14th » Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
• 14th » Solomos Solomou, Cypriot refugee (b. 1970)
• 20th » Rio Reiser, German singer-songwriter (Ton Steine Scherben) (b. 1950)
• 23rd » Margaret Tucker, Australian activist (b. 1904)
• 27th » Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)

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