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ENTERTAINMENT .-^ King Hussein of ^T Jordan [right] visits the West Bank of the Jordan River in
October to show support for the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks and the
establishment of an independent Palestinian state. It is Hussein's first visit since Jordan lost the territory to Israel in the 1 967 Arab- Israeli War.
In November, a hijacked Ethiopian airliner crashes after running out of fuel. The crash occurs near a resort beach in the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean. At least P^p. Alija Izetbegovic, leader of 123 of the 175 people Bosnia's Muslim Party of on board die, including Democratic Action, is elected the hijackers. chairman of the country's new three-person presidency in After 36 Central years, September. The election is held America's longest civil in accordance with provisions vuar ends when Indian of the U.S. -brokered Dayton rebels and military peace agreement. leftists sign a truce in Guatemala. AP/Wide World
British Telecommuni ^.^^ Russian cations agrees to ^T^ President Boris purchase MCI Yeltsin wins reelection in Communications for up ^ July, despite persistent to $21 billion in health problems. After November. The deal is successful heart the biggest foreign surgery in November he purchase of a U.S. returns to work. company ever concluded.
A U.N.-negotiated treaty banning chemical The Miss World Reuters/Archive Photos weapons worldwide is set _^k beauty to take effect in the T pageant, held in Bangalore, The India in November, raises a storm of spring. treaty _^l^ A pipe bomb explodes in prohibits the protests, some violent, one including \^ Centennial Olympic Park after development, production, by a group to stage a threatening the first day of competition at the stockpiling or use of mass suicide the during pageant's Summer in Atlanta. chemical and Olympics Flags fly weapons, telecast. A new Miss World is crowned at half-mast to calls for the destruction mourn the 1 person without incident. killed of existing supplies. The and more than 100 injured. treaty is signed by 1 60 nations, including the U.S.
.^ft Pope John Paul II undergoes T^ surgery for an inflamed in appendix October. His chief surgeon, Dr. Francesco Crucitti, announces that the 7a-year-old leader of the Roman Catholic Church is free from "previously undiscovered serious ailments."
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Reuters/Archive Photos IF" ^^J| In a group so ^r large it could be tracked by satellite, hundreds of thousands of refugees abandon camps in Zaire in November and begin a journey home to Rwanda, which they had fled to escape a civil war. Closing of the camps forces the refugees to flee. (Hm. Mass graves containing the I bodies of Muslims, allegedly murdered by Serbs in 1 992 during the Bosnian civil war, are excavated in Bosnia-Herzegovina throughout the year as a shaky peace negotiated in 1 995 continues.
(^^ More than 300 Tutsi refugees ^1^ in the African country of Burundi are slain by Hutus, a rival ethnic group. The covered bodies, mostly women and children, illustrate the ferocity of the conflict.
-Jm A lone ^T^ gunman kills 1 6 kindergartners, their teacher, and then
himself, at a Dunblane, Scotland school in March 1996. A month after the tragedy officials tear down the school gymnasium in which the shootings occurred.
(jA^ Israeli right-wing leader ^r Benjamin Netanyahu wins the May 1 996 election for Prime Minister, defeating Prime Minister Shimon Peres, whom many Israelis think is making too many concessions to Israel's Arab neighbors. \A ORLD NATIONAL
,L Binti Jua, a ^^^ gorilla at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, becomes a hero when she rescues a 3-year-old boy knocked unconscious after falling 1 8 feet into the ape enclosure. The boy suffers brain contusions
but soon recovers.
^^ Former U.N. ambassador flash ^p^ Madeleine Albright is nominated for Secretary of State by The U.S. issues Army President Clinton on December 5. strict new for drill policies Confirmed in office in January n against instructors and female 1 997. Albright is the first woman trainees, as hundreds of to head the State Department. American churches, complaints of sexual mostly in the South, is harassment are revealed AP/Wide World a serious in in November. Drill problem as hundreds of instructors are now 1996, required to leave their churches are burned doors open if a down. Residents of | i female is inside, ind, Oregon and women must f the damage ; travel in pairs. , a church aftepJ iune fire. -i After thousands of veterans complain of illnesses since the 1991 Persian Gulf the War, .^^ One of the Pentagon warns they ^1 Seven-year-old pilot Jessica "~T^ longest armed may have been exposed Dubroff is killed when her stand-offs in U.S. to chemical weapons. ^^^ Cessna crashes occurs outside The Pentagon reveals airplane shortly history after take-off in bad weather firom Montana that up to two tons of Jordan, sarin nerve gas may have the Cheyenne, Wyoming airport. between the FBI and been released. Her flying instructor and her father, members of an anti- the plane's two passengers, are government group Six-year-old beauty also killed in the April 1996 crash. calling itself the queen JonBenet pageant Freemen. The 81 -day Ramsey is found ends murdered in the siege peacefully in June. basement of her parents' Colorado home the day after Christmas. Her
On 1 1 , a death raises a nationwide ^ August awareness of ^*T^ boater rescues controversial youth 1 0-year-old Taylor beauty pageants. Touchstone from the snake- and alligator- of the House Speaker infested waters of a Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) Florida swamp 14 miles is fined $300,000 in a from where he bi-partisan vote after the away House Ethics disappeared August 7. Committee's year-long ^-^ Theodore Kaczynski, alleged Although exhausted investigation into alleged ^1 to be the "Unabomber," who and badly scratched, financial improprieties. killed 3 people and wounded the autistic boy more than 20 others with mail recovers fully bombs since 1978, is arrested in Montana in April 1996. Information provided by Kaczynski's brother leads to the arrest. ^^j^ William ^T Jefferson Clinton defeats Republican Bob Dole and Independent H. Ross Perot to ^^ become the 42nd president of the U.S. and the last president of the 20th century Clinton is the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to ^-^ A civil jury finds former football be reelected to a ^1^ star O.J. Simpson liable for the
second term. June 12,1 994 wrongfiji deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In a unanimous verdict, the jury awards $8.5 million in compensatory damages to Goldman's parents. The Brown and Goldman families are each awarded $12.5 million in punitive damages.
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abn -' The Citadel, South sins in Nov I Carolina's traditionally undermine the roadbed ^ll-male military academy of Oregon's Interstate admits four women, including ^-J|l. Topsail Beach, a town on an 5, a 40-foot- creating Petra Loventinska [left] and ^T"^ island off the coast of North sinkhole, into deep Jeanie Montavlos. Montavlos Carolina, is one of many Eastern which two semitrailer 'AfW' and another female cadet later locations hit hard by Hurricane Bertha trucks tumble. drop out, citing harassment in July Six powerful hurricanes, all with and "sadistic" hazing. winds over 110 miles per hour, made 1996 a near-record year doing $3.5 J Nationwide, billion in damage in the U.S. ^\^ forest fires All 110 aboard a blacken more than ^ people '^T ValuJet DC-9 are killed in twice the acreage lost 1 996 when a fire breaks to fires in an average May out in the hold. The year. California, cargo plane, en route from Miami to Montana and Oregon Atlanta, crashes and almost are particularly hard hit. disappears tTu-^.-"->*-4-i;, completely into the Florida K> =51^ :^T^" Everglades, making it difficult for -^vi-:^*Kfe workers to retrieve wreckage.
Security guard Richard Jewell is investigated as a suspect in uly Olympic Park bombing. After three months of media frenzy, during which Jewell is a virtual prisoner in
- v .^ - -.^v^- -> -^ ^ -" - --T--..^r:.i:-.ff^ -v'"-^;: his home, the U.S. Justice ^ : Department admits there is no evidence against him.
Six-year-old first- ' grader Johnathan J ^ Prevette is suspended from his Lexington, North " \
Carolina elementary school l Schwarz, Gamma/Liaison for violating the city schools' sexual conduct guidelines he kissed a female classmate. Prevette is quickly reinstated after a nationwide controversy over the suspension. NATIONAL SCIENCE
-^ American ^r^ astronaut Shannon Lucid (right] spends 1 88 days in space, breaking American space endurance records after joining the crew of the Russian space station Mir.
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A 9,300-year-old skeleton discovered in July near Richland, Washington is the oldest and most intact set of
human bones ever discovered in North America. Research is suspended, however, as the tribes from the Native American grounds where it is found claim the
skeleton as an ancestor and want the bones buried.
Trauma Seal, a new medical adhesive that is applied like a lip-balm stick, is in clinical trials at 1 0 hospitals and health care institutions nationwide. The biodegradable adhesive could eliminate stitches and return visits.
New York Police Department canines begin wearing three- pound, infrared cameras, scouting out potentially dangerous areas before police officers enter the scene. Handlers are developing bullet-proof vests for the dogs to wear.
A new category of animal is discovered in the form of bacteria that live on the lips of lobsters. Symbion pandora, which lives on food scraps from lobster lips, is called "the zoological highlight of the decade." (-^ California's ^-.^ The Hubble Space Telescope 1^ Monterey Bay ^T^ captures new images of Aquarium opens a new quasars, the universe's most powerful wing in March 1996. and baffling phenomena. Previously The million-gallon indoor thought only to exist in colliding ocean showcases the galaxies, new pictures indicate marine life of the quasars can also exist in undisturbed outer reaches of galaxies causing astronomers to Monterey Bay 5 to revisit their theories. 60 miles offshore.
^^-hjk. The Smithsonian Institution ^T^ celebrates the 1 50th anniversary of its founding with a nationwide tour of prize exhibits, including this stovepipe hat worn by Abraham Lincoln.
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^J||. "The Late Show"| ""^r host David Letterman [right], who i had been hinting at I ' retirement, re-signs his contract with CBS, keeping him at "The Late Show" through 2002.
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suffers a heart attack in late Former NFL December. It is the commissioner Pete 86-year-old Roman Catholic nun's fourth Rozelle dies on December 6. Rozelle is credited serious illness in 1996. with transforming professional football into America's top spectator sport, and with inventing the Super Bowl.
Basketball megastar Michael Jordan
launches his own cologne: Michael Jordan Demand Cologne. -^j^^ Regis Philbin for the fragrance is so ^r appears with high that manufacturer host Rosie O'Donnell on Bijan Fragrances limits ABC's 'The Rosie sales to 1 2 bottles O'Donnell Show." The per customer. talk show, which The ever-present Cindy premieres in 1996, Crawford releases a gains quick popularity book on applying and respect. make-up. Basic Face enjoys a long run on the best-seller lists.
The National Women's Hall of Fame opens in Seneca Falls, New York, HI inducting 1 1 women, v^^ including author Louisa }ty ~^li^^^| May Alcott, and Oveta Culp Hobby, the nation's M first female colonel. 'j^ll^^^^k
Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin dies of i^ pancreatic cancer in November. Bernardin In October, TV talk-show host f was known for a |Jfc ^H being l"^ reconciler in churches Jenny Jones testifies during the ^^ ^ \ / torn between tradition Michigan murder trial of Jonathan and modern culture, as Schmitz. Schmitz was accused of killing \ well as for speaking out Scott Amedure, who revealed romantic against physician- feelings for Schmitz during a March assisted suicide. 1995 of a Jones Show." taping "Jenny >^ f t AP/Wide World rat In a small, r^ secret W'^m^m^^^^^^^^^^Kr^a ceremony ^ on an island off the coast of Georgia, John F Kennedy Jr. marries ^ Carolyn Bessette, a m Calvin Klein publicist, in ^^Mk September. Kennedy who dated Bessette for two years, had long been considered one of the world's most eligible bachelors. ^m1 ^^^^^buNJ^ > ' 1^11 f^^ New York Yankees fan Jeflrey ^1 Maier interferes with a fiy ball during game one of the American League Championship Series on October 9. The hit is ruled a
home run, tying the game 4 to 4 in the eighth inning and making Maier New York's hero for a day
(^-4m Veteran comedian George Burns ^1 dies in March 1 996, just weeks after reaching the age of 100. The legendary Burns won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Grammy Award in an illustrious career dating back to vaudeville.
^-^ As a stand against the invasion ^T of his privacy George Clooney star of NBC's "ER," boycotts Paramount's "Entertainment Tonight" after its sister show "Hard Copy" runs unauthorized footage of the actor's private life.
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Scott Adams' Dilbert. the ,^-ih, ;;Drew Car ^1 comic about office strip llleft) finds ^t the nation's politics, captures T'dom Tom Cruise stars in In book The f:'-? imagination. form. the second Jerry Maguire, a during Dilbert becomes a Principle season of ABC's romantic comedy about a national best-seller. sports agent who 'The Drew Carey decides to his a change Bntury Fox from Shooting Star Show," zany shallow ways, and sit-com about M%. X spends the rest of the working-class ^^ movie to his trying regain *'iaracters in success. It is a ieveland, Ohio. , breakthrough role for Cruise, who is normally depicted as Warner Bros, TV from Shooting Star a cocky winner.
Award- To honor the 20th ^^ Academy ^T^ actor anniversary of its winning release, producer George m tiling you do! Tom Hanks' first effort Lucas issues a "remade" at receives ^^ Actors Winona Ryder and directing Star Wars, with new critical praise when ^^^ Daniel Day-Lewis star in The scenes, computerized That You a which in December Thing Do!, effects and Crucible, opens special movie about the souped-up animation. The screen adaption of Arthur meteoric rise and fall of Lucas' grand plan calls Miller's famous play about the a 1960s rock band, for a nine-film cycle, Salem witch trials is written by in October. including prequels. Arthur Miller himself. opens
English actor/director 20th Century Fox from Shooting Star Kenneth Branagh plays Hamlet in his star- studded remake of jL Model Brooke Shields (center] Shakespeare's classic. \^ moves to television in NBC's Despite running four "Suddenly Susan," a sit-com premiering hours, the movie is a in September. Shields plays a columnist critical and box-office opposite magazine editor Judd Nelson success. [far right].
NBC's Thursday night drama "ER" features Author television's first HIV- Michael positive prominent ^ character. Jeanie Boulet, Crichton a physician's assistant publishes The played by Gloria Reuben, Lost World, a is about relatively open ^Jfc. Sherry Stringfield, Dr. Susan sequel to her condition and helps ""^^ Lewis on NBC's "ER," leaves Jurassic Park, confront the stigma the show at the of her the colossal of AIDS. peak character's popularity. In her final novel and episode, when Or. Mark Greene, movie. The MBC from Shooting Star played by Anthony Edwards, declares new book his love for Susan, the show garners promises to its highest ratings ever. generate just as much hype, with a movie already in the works. In September, ^ Tom Cruise stars in John Leonardo "^X^ Mission: Impossible, based (-4k, Lithgow (firont right) ^T earns both an Emmy and a DiCaprio and Claire on the 1 960s and '70s television | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Danes star as the series of the same name. Despite in a Series in NBC's "3rd classic star-crossed critical put-downs, the movie is a Comedy Rock From the Sun," a sit-com lovers in the film huge box-office hit. about a of aliens in Romeo and Juliet. family living 20th Century Fox from Shooting Star contemporary America.
A Actors Brad Pitt (left] and "n^ Jason Patric star in Sleepers, a film about four men and their extraordinary scheme to revenge the abuse they experienced as boys. The controversial movie also stars Dustin Hoffiman, Robert De Niro and Kevin Bacon.
,^^ Stars Bill Paxton and Helen ^1 Hunt flee a tornado of awesome proportions in Twister, another summer blockbuster, which tells the story of storm chasers highly devoted to studying the inner workings of tornadoes. MUSIC
^J| British pop ^T^ superstars Liam [left] and Noel Gallagher cancel the remainder of
a U.S. concert tour in September amid rumors that their band, Oasis, is breaking up. Denying the reports, the brothers announce they will release a new album in
the summer of 1 997.
Beatles' _^^kThe Anthology 3, KIpa. LGI ^\ the third and final album ^m flash from the reunited remaining members of the band, is released 5 releases a new album, From in November. Following the example Folk and blues artist the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, in of their two previous anthologies. Tracy Chapman returns October. The album contains 1 7 live Anthology 3 sells in record to the scene in 1 996 tracks recorded between 1 989 and numbers. with the single "Give the 1 994 suicide of singer Kurt Me One Reason." Gary Malerba, LGI Cobain (right). Chapman receives five Grammy nominations in January 1997. Jane Huntington, LGI
The artist formerly Bush, a British rock group with known as Prince ..^ an American releases ^1^ "grunge" sound, tours the U.S. to their album Emancipation, a three- promote hour, three-CD album, Sixteen Stone. They release another in honor of his release chart-topping album, Razorblade from his Warner Bros. Suitcase, in the winter. recording contract.
Kiss bass Gene Guitarist Slash of Guns (^ guitarist Simmons strikes a familiar N' Roses forms his own ^1^ as the band kicks off a reunion band. His new group, pose Slash's Blues Ball, is a tour with a June 28 concert in six-man blues band Detroit. The tour marks the first grounded in the blues- time the original members of the based hard rock of band perform together since 1 979. the 1 970s.
Rocker Sheryl Crow joins the ranks of musicians who have had their albums banned from mr Wal-Mart. The retail giant objects to a lyric alleging that kids kill each fi (^-m Heavy metal band Metallica other with guns they ^1 is the headlining act for the from the store. obtained V summer concert Lollapalooza, traditionally an alternative-rock 4esa show. Metallica remains F-' 1 high- profile, winning an MTV award for
^^^^^B^V^^r . '/^^\ the year's Best Hard Rock Video in September. _^fc After 10 years of separation, members ^\ of the band Van Halen are reunited with their former lead David Lee Roth ("j^. Canadian pop artist Celine singer, (right), at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1 Dion tops the charts in September. 1 996 with the album Falling Into Roth later claims he thought he was rejoining the who chose a You, which sells more than 1 6 band, different lead singer. million copies worldwide. ...^ Fourteen-year-old singing ~r^ sensation LeAnn Rimes is ( lominated for the Country Music Association's Horizon Award after the breakthrough success of her single "Blue." The popular new star dubbed the of "godfather 'gangsta' is often to compared country The music world is stunned in himself from rap," begins distancing music Cline. (JA^ legend Patsy f"^ the death of hard-core rap. "Been There, Done September by Shakur, killed in a That," his break-away anthem, rapper Tupac drive-by Alanis Morissette's Jagged shooting in Las Vegas. Speculations as (^^ premieres on MTV in September. ^\ Little Pill reigns the charts, to the killer's motive abound, but the the all-time becoming top-selling year ends with no answers and album by a female artist. no arrests. Morissette also dominates the .M.'s12th 1 996 Grammys by winning four bum, New awards, including Best Album. Adventures in Hi-Fi, the group's first recording ' since 1 994's Monster, is released by Warner Bros, in September.
5 Wallflowers, with akob Dylan, son of legendary folk artist Bob Dylan, release Bringing Down the Horse, which features hit singles "One Headlight" and "6th " Avenue Heartache." James L. Lance, LGI USIC SPORTS
^^ The New York "^ Yankees win the World Series, beating the Atlanta Braves in a
four-game sweep, after losing the first two games. It is the first series title for the Yankees since 1978.
Al Bello, Allsport Team USA wins the World Cup of Hockey beating flash Canada 5-2 in the final. Eight teams firom Canada, Europe and the U.S. participate in the Tennis pro Pete Sampras World Cup, which the wins the eighth grand- replaced Canada slam title of his career Cup. at the U.S. Open in September. Steffi Graf wins the U.S. Open Women's title, beating Monica Seles.
Pro boxer Mike Tyson loses his Heavyweight Champion of the World title to Evander Holyfield in a November ^^ Paul Molitor of the match. Holyfield, a ^T^ Minnesota Twins becomes former two-time world the 21st player in major league champion, reclaims his history to reach 3,000 career title in the surprise win. Twenty-year-old golfing (^. hits. The milestone is reached in ^T^ phenom Eldrick "Tiger" September, when Molitor triples Chicago Bulls star Woods turns pro in August, making Dennis Rodman furthers against Kansas City Royals rookie the transition fi^om exceptional his controversial pitcher Jose Rosado. amateur golfer to well-endorsed reputation by kicking a professional, including a deal photographer in the with Nike worth an estimated groin during a game $40 million. against the Minnesota Reuters/Archive Pho Timberwolves in January 1997. Rodman is Race car driver Labonte suspended for up to 1 1 -^ Terry wins games without pay, ^r NASCAR's Winston Cup costing him more than championship with a total of 4,657 $1 million, in addition to points after finishing fifth in the a fine to the $25,000 final race, the Napa 500, at the NBA, as well as a Atlanta Motor Speedway reported $200,000 settlement with the photographer. jL Led by quarterback Brett \^ Favre, the Green Baltimore Orioles second Bay Packers beat the New baseman Roberto England Patriots 35-21 Alomar is suspended for in Super Bowl XXXI at the Louisiana five games, deferred to Superdome. It is the Packers' first the 1997 season, when Super Bowl since 1 968. he spits on an umpire during a heated argument over a questionable call in the National League play-offs. Craig Jones, Allsport APWide World Controversy ensues over the leniency of the punishment. ^^ The U.S. Pimi ^T women's gymnastics team takes ^HH^4 EfAi^M' the gold at the Summer Olympics. Kerri Strug, second from right, is kH the heroine of the competition, landing her final vault despite a dislocated left ankle. m^^^Mfly O^^!j^ (^ ^^-^ The Chicago Bulls win their ^1 fourth NBA championship in six years as they defeat the Seattle SuperSonics in game six of the NBA finals on June 16.
^ Olympic swimmer Tom ^-^ Jean Driscoll [firont right] of the n^ Dolan captures another ^^"^ U.S. takes the silver in the gold for the U.S. as he wins women's 800-meter wheelchair race, a the 4CXIkneter individual medley demonstration sport, at the Summer on July 21. Dolan wins with a Olympics. Driscoll, seven-time winner time of 4:14.90. of the Boston Marathon, retires at the end of 1996, after setting several world records during her career.
-^ Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal 1^ jumps fi^om the Orlando Magic to the Los Angeles Lakers in July The deal is the richest in NBA history, paying O'Neal $1 20 million over 7 years.
^-^ Minnesota Twins star ^\^ centerfielder Kirby Puckett announces his retirement from baseball in July. A serious eye ailment forces Puckett to give up the game, but he manages to maintain his upbeat attitude at press conferences and interviews.
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Helping consumers maintain privacy, marketers promote home AIDS tests. Consumers draw their
own blood and then send it away to be tested confidentially.
Advancing technology means more options on telephones, including Caller ID, which becomes more
common than ever in 1996. The display unit allows people to see the name and number of their caller before even answering the phone.
Authors Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider release The Rules, a controversial manual teaching women strategies for getting a man to propose marriage. While the book draws criticism from
both sexes, it is a best-seller.
The U.S. Postal Service issues stamps commemorating Hanukkah, the first non Christian religious holiday ever featured on a stamp.
Casual Fridays become more and more widespread in American work culture. Businesses allow employees who normally dress in professional clothing at work to wear more comfortable, casual clothing on Fridays.
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