- Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Benjamin Netanyahu were elected leaders of their countries.
- Kofi Annan was named UN Secretary General.
- Peace was declared in Bosnia.
- Madeleine Albright became the first female Secretary of State in US history.
- The Unabomber suspect was arrested.
- Great Britain had an outbreak of mad cow disease.
- Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorced.
- IBM's Deep Blue computer won a game against chess master Gary Kasparov.
- Gene Kelly, George Burns, and Carl Sagan died.
- Braveheart won the Academy Award for best picture.
- Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes was a bestseller.
- Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" won the Grammy awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
For more, go to:
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1996.html
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1996?p=4
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