WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1996
Find out what all happened April to July 1996

The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. (13. June 1996)

The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. (21. May 1996)

TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board. (17. July 1996)

The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen. (25. June 1996)

The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law. (28. June 1996)

Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense. (28. April 1996)

The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission. (4. June 1996)

In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge. (18. April 1996)

The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead. (21. May 1996)

First Chechnya War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. (27. May 1996)

After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, 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. (11. May 1996)

Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his cabin in Montana, United States. (3. April 1996)

The 1996 Lebanon war ends. (27. April 1996)

Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people. (13. May 1996)

Centennial Olympic Park bombing: in Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured. (27. July 1996)

The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom. (15. June 1996)

Battle of Mullaitivu: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers. (18. July 1996)

The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest. (11. May 1996)

Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts. (18. June 1996)

A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board. (3. April 1996)