8 January 1996GovernorMike Foster
Appointed Governor of Louisiana
Historical records for United States of America in 1996, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Appointed Governor of Louisiana
Dupree helps produce Hubble's first direct image resolving the surface of a star other than the Sun, revealing Betelgeuse's ultraviolet hot spot.
Williams directs the Hubble Deep Field program, combining hundreds of exposures into an unprecedented deep view containing thousands of galaxies.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recognising his influence on rock, pop and visual performance.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Velvet Underground.
Signs the Communications Decency Act, attempts to regulate both indecency (when available to children) and obscenity in cyberspace
Death of Gene Kelly
Signs the Telecom Reform Act, Congress forces local telephone companies to share their lines with competitors at regulated rates
Receives the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.
The Hubble surface map confirms a dark equatorial belt and bright polar regions on Pluto.
Hubble observations indicate Pluto's surface patterns are strongly influenced by migrating nitrogen and methane frosts.
Hubble results produce the first image-based surface map of Pluto, revealing about a dozen major bright and dark regions.
Attends a summit supporting the peace process after attacks threaten negotiations.
Death of William Egan Colby
Galileo makes the first of its close Ganymede encounters during its Jupiter orbital mission.
Signs the Minimum wage Increase Act
Clinton signs the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, which includes time limits for welfare, work requirements, and assistance for people transitioning to work
Clinton signs the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, which includes time limits for welfare, work requirements, and assistance for people transitioning to work
Galileo makes another close Ganymede encounter, passing much nearer the surface than during its first targeted flyby.
Death of Spiro Agnew
Signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on the day it opens for signature.
Has an orchiectomy to remove the diseased testicle, asked in an interview what Armstrongs chances are, Dr. Reeves, the surgeon, says "Almost none. We told Lance initially 20 to 50% chance, mainly to give him hope. But with the kind of cancer he had, with the x-rays, the blood tests, almost no hope."
Galileo makes its first close pass of Callisto, mapping the moon's ancient cratered surface.
Yelstin undergoes successful quintuple heart bypass surgery, performed by American heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey
Appointed Secretary of State for Commerce
Galileo data establish Ganymede as the first moon known to possess its own magnetic field.
Armstrongs last chemotherapy treatment
Initiated in Dayton, Ohio on November 21, 1995 the full formal agreement is signed in Paris
Galileo makes its first targeted close flyby of Europa and images its fractured icy terrain.
Death of Carl Edward Sagan
Appointed Secretary of Labour
Appointed Secretary of Energy
Appointed Secretary of Transport
Publication of "A Game of Thrones"
Winner of the best male actor for "Leaving Las Vegas"
The peace agreement reached at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Ends the 3 1/2 yrs of war in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia
Publication of "Airframe"
Hosty published Assignment: Oswald, presenting his account of the FBI investigation of Oswald and controversies surrounding his role in Dallas.
Becomes the first American to win the Belgian classic Fleche Wallone
Directs The Birdcage
Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa use string theory to calculate the entropy of a black hole, getting the same answer as Hawking and Bekenstein
Under the Dayton Accords a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia is created. The Dayton Accords stops the 3 1/2 yr war & recognizes the sovereignty of Bosnia. Clinton is awarded the Dayton Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Bosnia & build lasting peace in the Balkans. Claims to have "solved" to problems in Bosnia after the Dayton peace talks
Under the Dayton Accords a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia is created
The peace conference is chaired by American negotiator Richard Holbrooke
Clinton is awarded the Dayton Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Bosnia & build lasting peace in the Balkans
Woody Allen received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America
Luu and colleagues identify 1996 TL66, an object on a highly eccentric orbit associated with the scattered trans-Neptunian population.
Elected to the Illinois Senate
Stars as pregnant Minnesota police chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo.
Publication of "Fight Club"
Galileo data strengthens evidence for a subsurface ocean at Europa.
Galileo magnetic measurements show that Ganymede has its own magnetosphere within Jupiter's much larger magnetic environment.
Winner of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Diagnosed as having stage three (advanced) testicular cancer (embryonal carcinoma), the cancer had spread to his brain, lungs and abdomen
Publication of "In the Beauty of the Lilies"
Under the Dayton Accords a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia is created
Under the Dayton Accords a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia is created
Under the Dayton Accords a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia is created
Under the Dayton Accords a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia is created
Publication of "Infinite Jest"
Walken appears in the film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic gangster
Kennedy secures an increase in the minimum wage law, a favorite issue of his
Stars in Mission: Impossible. Stars in Jerry Maguire
Riess develops improved light-curve techniques for standardizing Type Ia supernova luminosities and reducing uncertainty in cosmological distance estimates.
Stars in Multiplicity
Winner of the long jump Olympic Gold Medal, 4th consecutive title
Lights the Atlantic flame
Appointed President of the USA, 42nd President, 2nd term
Directs The Sunchaser
Stars in his first feature film, "The Pallbearer"
Becomes the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater controversy
Writes & directs, "Twister"
This agreement also allowed the UN to oversee the use and management of oil revenues, and to see that some of the funds went to pay war reparations and for the work of UNSCOM in Iraq during this period.
This record states: The Iraqi ruling regime agreed to the terms of United Security Council Resolution 986, an oil-for-supplies agreement in which Iraq was allowed to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months as a ways to purchase.
This record states: supplies for its increasingly impoverished and malnourished population.
This agreement also allowed the UN to oversee the use and management of oil revenues, and to see that some of the funds went to pay war reparations and for the work of UNSCOM in Iraq during this period.
This record states: The Iraqi ruling regime agreed to the terms of United Security Council Resolution 986, an oil-for-supplies agreement in which Iraq was allowed to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months as a ways to purchase.
This record states: supplies for its increasingly impoverished and malnourished population.
This agreement also allowed the UN to oversee the use and management of oil revenues, and to see that some of the funds went to pay war reparations and for the work of UNSCOM in Iraq during this period.
This record states: The Iraqi ruling regime agreed to the terms of United Security Council Resolution 986, an oil-for-supplies agreement in which Iraq was allowed to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months as a ways to purchase.
This record states: supplies for its increasingly impoverished and malnourished population.
Analysis of Magellan data strengthens interpretations of Venus as a geologically complex world dominated by volcanism and tectonic deformation.
Ranked no 1 in World Cycling
Ranked the number one cyclist in the world
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