January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death June 24, 1996
The temperature on June 24, 1996 was between 10.0 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
February 17 » NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
May 28 » U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
June 10 » Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
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