WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1996
Find out what all happened May to October 1996

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

Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever: the Saguenay Flood. (18. July 1996)

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

Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce. (28. August 1996)

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

In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. (25. July 1996)

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

Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70. (2. October 1996)

Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.' (23. August 1996)

Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children. (11. October 1996)

Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. (20. 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)

84 people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City. (16. October 1996)

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

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

Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK. (31. August 1996)

The 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. (28. May 1996)

Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. (24. September 1996)

The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared. (6. May 1996)

Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland. (3. July 1996)