February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death December 6, 1996
The temperature on December 6, 1996 was between 3.5 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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January 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
May 11 » After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
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 13 » The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
July 27 » In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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