Friday, July 19, 1996

ŗWešre going to have a void for the next few years and it is going to take a long time to fill.˛
-- Mayor John Dorin of Montoursville, Pennsylvania


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  • The opening ceremonies for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games will be held in Atlanta. The Olympic flame will arrive after a 15,000-mile journey across the United States. President Clinton is scheduled to speak.

  • The Food and Drug Administration panel is set to vote on the "abortion pill," RU 486.

  • A hearing is scheduled for Theodore Kaczynski, who has pleaded innocent in four Unabomber attacks, in Sacramento, California. He's charged with four of the 16 bombings blamed on the Unabomber.

  • Today is the latest deadline for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to give himself up. Robert Frowick, a U.S. official organizing Bosnia's elections, gave the Serbian Democratic Party until Friday to dump Karadzic or be banned from elections.

  • On Saturday, July 20, the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta officially begin.

  • On Sunday, July 21, Kandy Esala Perahera, Sri Lanka's main annual Buddhist religious procession, begins.

  • On Monday, July 22, former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Illinois, reports to the federal medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, to begin serving a 17-month sentence for mail fraud.

  • In 1553, 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. King Henry the Eighth's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen.

  • In 1848, a pioneer women's rights convention called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott convened in Seneca Falls, New York.

  • In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war began.

  • In 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.

  • In 1943, allied air forces raided Rome during World War Two.

  • In 1969, "Apollo Eleven" and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.

  • In 1975, the "Apollo" and "Soyuz" space capsules separated after being linked in orbit for two days.

  • In 1984, U.S. Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro, D-New York, won the Democratic nomination for vice president by acclamation at the party's convention in San Francisco.

  • In 1985, Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the "Challenger" exploded shortly after liftoff.

  • In 1989, 112 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 184 people survived.

  • In 1986, Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, Massachusetts.

  • In 1991, the South African government acknowledged that it had given money to the Inkatha Freedom Party, the main rival of the African National Congress. President Bush toured the Souda Bay U.S. naval base during a visit to Greece.

  • In 1995, in the busiest trading day in history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended at 4,628.87, down 57.41, after plunging more than 130 points during the session.

  • Perhaps one of the biggest basketball coups in history occurred Thursday when one of the premier centers in the NBA, Shaquille O'Neal, decided to leave the Orlando Magic and sign with the Los Angeles Lakers for $120 million dollars. An official Shaq site -- http://www.shaq.com/ -- provides the latest news on Shaq, including his rapper, acting and public spokesman pursuits. You can also e-mail Shaq or login on a live shat with the man himself.

    Or try a less commercial, unofficial page on Shaq -- http://www.fiu.edu:80/~goraczko/bkb/shq/twih.html -- for more factual and statistical tidbits.

  • Australia observes Katherine Show Day.

  • Malaysia celebrates Yang DiPertua Besar's Birthday.

  • Nicaragua observes Liberation Day.

  • Former Senator George McGovern is 74. Actor Pat Hingle is 72. Actress Helen Gallagher is 70. Country singer George Hamilton IV is 59. Singer Vikki Carr is 55. Actor Dennis Cole is 53. Rock musician Brian May (Queen) is 49. Rock musician Bernie Leadon (Eagles, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 49. Actor Peter Barton is 37. Actor Campbell Scott is 34.


  • Sources: Associated Press,
    Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan


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