WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1996
Find out what all happened July to September 1996

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

The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad. (29. July 1996)

The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland. (25. September 1996)

Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. (14. August 1996)

Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy (22. August 1996)

The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man. (28. July 1996)

The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil. (27. September 1996)

Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people. (5. September 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)

A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. (15. July 1996)

The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded. (17. July 1996)

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. (29. August 1996)

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

President of Turkey Süleyman Demirel approved to "Law of ban For Casino in Turkey" (15. August 1996)

In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. (27. September 1996)

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

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

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

NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. (6. August 1996)