What Happened in July 1996

• Jul 1 Canadian NHL franchise Winnipeg Jets officially moves to Arizona, renamed the Phoenix Coyotes
• Jul 1 In a tour match v India, Hampshire's Kevan James becomes the only 1st class cricketer to take 4 wickets in 4 balls - and then score a century (103)

• Jul 1 WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
• Jul 3 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and British monarchs), will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey
• Jul 4 29th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
• Jul 4 Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
• Jul 5 Angels score 3 top 1st, Oakland A's respond with 13 bottom 1st, highest-scoring 1st inning by 2 teams in MLB history, A's win 16-8
• Jul 6 In a 2-0 win v Brewers, New York Yankees closer John Wetteland sets MLB record 20 consecutive saves en route to 24

• Jul 7 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands

• Jul 7 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Richard Krajicek becomes first Dutchman to win a Grand Slam singles title beating American MaliVai Washington 6-3, 6-4, 6-3

• Jul 9 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
• Jul 9 All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers)
• Jul 9 US Senate approves 90 cent raise to $4.25 minimum wage

• Jul 12 Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
• Jul 13 Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
• Jul 14 New York Yankees closer John Wetteland sets MLB record 24 consecutive saves
• Jul 14 NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time

• Jul 15 A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport
• Jul 15 After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd
• Jul 15 MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
• Jul 15 Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
• Jul 17 Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747
• Jul 18 Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec's costliest natural disasters ever
• Jul 18 The UN approves an Iraqi aid distribution plan, a major step forward in the direction of allowing Iraq to sell oil under Resolution 986
• Jul 19 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
• Jul 19 XXVI Summer Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia
• Jul 20 In Spain an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35
• Jul 21 "The Daily Show", late-night talk and satirical news program hosted by Craig Kilborn premieres on Comedy Central in the US
• Jul 21 83rd Tour de France won by Bjarne Riis of Denmark

• Jul 25 Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
• Jul 27 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
• Jul 27 Brazilian pair Jackie Silva and Sandra Pires win inaugural women's beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics
• Jul 27 David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
• Jul 28 Americans Karch Kiraly & Kent Steffes win inaugural beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics; Kiraly first to win gold in both indoor and beach events

• Jul 28 Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.

• Jul 29 The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court
• Jul 30 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager

• Jul 1 Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold individual, 2014), born in Moscow, Russia

• Jul 15 Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player (Arsenal, Netherlands), born in Hoogeveen, Netherlands
• Jul 20 Ben Simmons, Australian basketball point guard (2016 NBA Draft: #1 pick Philadelphia 76ers), born in Melbourne, Victoria
• Jul 23 David Dobrik, Slovakian YouTuber (The Vlog Squad), born in Košice, Slovakia
• Jul 23 Rachel G. Fox, American actress (Desperate Housewives), born in Laurenceville, Georgia

Deaths 1 - 100 of 102

• Jul 1 Alfred Marks, British actor and comedian (Desert Mice; Scream & Scream Again), dies at 75
• Jul 1 Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model and actress (Lipstick), commits suicide with an overdose of phenobarbital, at 42
• Jul 1 Michael Fraser, British Conservative Party political administrator, dies at 80
• Jul 1 Steve Tesich, Serbian-American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Breaking Away; The World According To Garp), and playwright, dies of a heart attack at 53
• Jul 1 William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (1970-74), dies at 84
• Jul 2 Hugh Davson, English physiologist (protein sandwich model), dies at 86
• Jul 3 Pim Jacobs, Dutch jazz pianist, TV host and actor (Gilas), dies at 61
• Jul 3 Raaj Kumar, Hindi actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 69
• Jul 4 Clay [David] Jones, Welsh gardener (BBC Gardener's Question Time), dies at 72
• Jul 4 Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
• Jul 5 Anne Hummert, American radio pioneer and producer of daytime radio serials during the 1930s and 1940s (Just Plain Bill, The Romance of Helen Trent), dies at 91
• Jul 5 Clyde Wiegand, American physicist ( co-discovered the antiproton), dies at 81
• Jul 5 Erik Wickberg, 9th Salvation Army general, dies at 91
• Jul 5 Lorna Young, Scottish promoter of Fairtrade products, dies at 44
• Jul 6 Kathy Ahern, American golfer (Women's PGA C'ship 1972), dies of breast cancer at 47
• Jul 7 Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael, Duke of Bavaria, dies at 91

• Jul 8 (James Woodie) J.W. Alexander, American gospel and soul music songwriter, singer, and producer (Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Solomon Burke), dies of prostate cancer at 80
• Jul 8 Amschel Rothschild, British banker (executive chairman of Rothschild Asset Management of the Rothschild banking family of England), dies at 41
• Jul 8 Ernest Armstrong, British politician (L) and teacher, dies at 81
• Jul 8 Thomas Mitchell, British architect and engineer, dies at 90
• Jul 9 Christopher Casson, Irish-English actor (Zardoz, Educating Rita, The Riordans), dies at 84
• Jul 9 Douglas G. Chapman, Canadian-American biomathematical statistician (whale conservation), dies at 76 [1]
• Jul 9 Melvin Belli, American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and "Melvin Bellicose", dies at 88
• Jul 9 Peter Martini, British journalist, dies at 31
• Jul 9 Susan Cowdy, English ornithologist (Bardsey Island Trust) dies at 81
• Jul 11 Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer, choreography and teacher (Schepelingen), dies at 102
• Jul 11 Louis Gottlieb, American musician (The Limeliters), dies at 72
• Jul 11 Martin Corbett, English gay rights activist (Gay Liberation Front, OutRage!), dies of AIDS at 51
• Jul 12 (Andrew) Rodger Waterson, Scottish zoologist, specializing in malacology (mollusks) and entomology (insects), dies at 84
• Jul 12 Gottfried von Einem, Austrian composer, mainly of opera (Der Prozeß - The Trial), dies at 78
• Jul 12 John Boon, English publisher (MiIls and Boon), dies at 79

• Jul 12 John Chancellor, American journalist and news anchor (Voice Of America, 1965-67; NBC Nightly News, 1970-82), dies at 68
• Jul 12 Jonathan Melvoin, American funk-rock keyboardist (Prince; Smashing Pumpkins, 1995-96), dies of a heroin overdose at 34
• Jul 12 Nazar Mohammad, Pakistani cricket batsman (5 Tests, 1 x 100 Pakistan's 1st centurion), dies at 75
• Jul 13 Pandro S. Berman, American film producer, dies at 91
• Jul 13 Walter Hassan, British automotive engineer, dies at 91
• Jul 14 Jeff Krosnoff, American CART driver, killed in a racing accident at 31
• Jul 14 Kenneth Bainbridge, American physicist (measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes), dies at 91
• Jul 14 Kim Besly, British Peace activist (Greenham Common), dies at 69
• Jul 15 Dana Hill, American actress (Vacation), dies at 32
• Jul 16 Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
• Jul 16 John Panozzo, American rock drummer (Styx), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 47
• Jul 17 Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (NSW 1933-37) and radio commentator (1935-85), dies at 85
• Jul 17 Amancio D'Silva, Goan-Indian jazz guitarist and composer, dies after several stokes at 60
• Jul 17 Chris Komar, American ballet dancer and artistic director (Milwaukee Ballet, 1969-72; Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 1972-93), dies of AIDS at 48
• Jul 17 Geoffrey Jellicoe, English landscape architect, dies at 95

• Jul 17 John William Fozard, British aircraft designer, dies at 68
• Jul 17 Paul Touvier, French Nazi collaborator in World War II called the "Hangman of Lyon" and convicted war criminal, dies of prostate cancer at 81
• Jul 17 Sid Sussman, American beauty pageant organizer (Miss U.S.A.), dies of heart attack
• Jul 17 [Bryan] Chas Chandler, English rock bassist (The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"), and manager of Jimi Hendrix, dies at 57
• Jul 18 Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71
• Jul 19 (Emmanual Tettey) "E.T." Mensah, Ghanaian saxophonist, known as the "King of Highlife" music (Accra Rhythmic Orchestra; The Tempos), dies at 77
• Jul 19 David Nicolson, British businessman and politician (Chairman of BTR Industries-1969), dies at 73
• Jul 19 Lawrence Jenco, American Roman Catholic priest who was held hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, dies at 61
• Jul 19 Mervyn Hugh Cowie, wildlife conservationist, dies at 87
• Jul 19 Owen Tudor Williams, English civil engineer (built UK motorways including Spaghetti junction, dies at 79
• Jul 19 Pran Nath Chhuttani, Indian physician and teacher, dies at 81
• Jul 20 Colin Mitchell, British army soldier (led 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during Aden City Uprising), dies at 70
• Jul 20 Peter Raleigh, English foreign correspondent and television executive, dies at 77
• Jul 21 Francis James Claude Piggott, British soldier, dies at 85
• Jul 21 Gerald McArthur, British Scotland Yard detective who caught the Great Train Robbers, dies at 80
• Jul 21 Herb Edelman, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5), dies of emphysema 62
• Jul 21 James Tye, English safety expert (formed British Safety Council), dies at 74
• Jul 21 John Kevin Moorhouse, British test pilot, dies in a plane crash during an air show at 50
• Jul 21 Macha Rosenthal, American critic and poet (Poetry as Confession), dies at 79

• Jul 21 Wolf Morris, English actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
• Jul 22 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65
• Jul 22 Leon Shenandoah, Native American leader (Iroquois Confederacy), dies at 81
• Jul 22 Peter Ludwig, German businessman and art collector, dies at 71
• Jul 22 Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33
• Jul 22 Tamara Danz, German singer (Silly), dies of cancer at 43
• Jul 23 Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
• Jul 23 Aliki Vouyouklaki, Greek stage and screen actress (Madalena), dies of pancreatic cancer at 62
• Jul 23 Hamilton Fish IV, American politician (Rep-R-NY, 1969-95), dies at 70
• Jul 23 Jean Muir, American actress (Fugitive in the Sky, The Aldrich Family) and the 1st performer to be blacklisted for being an alleged communist sympathizer, dies at 85 [1]
• Jul 23 Jessica "Decca" Mitford, English author, activist and one of the Mitford sisters, dies at 78
• Jul 23 John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
• Jul 23 Red Munger, American baseball (MLB All Star 1944, 47, 49; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 77
• Jul 24 Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (Love and Death, Delicatessen), dies at 82
• Jul 24 Jock Wallace, Scottish soccer manager (Berwick Rangers, Rangers, Leicester City, Motherwell, Sevilla), dies from Parkinson's disease at 60
• Jul 24 Virginia Christine [Ricketts], American actress (Mrs Olson, Tales of Wells Fargo), dies of cardiovascular disease at 76
• Jul 25 Raymond O'Malley, English teacher, dies at 87
• Jul 26 Arthur McDonald, Royal Air Force officer and radar pioneer, dies at 93
• Jul 26 Evelyn Levine, American composer ("Scarlet Ribbons"), dies at 94

• Jul 27 Ivan V. Lalić, Serbian poet, dies at 65
• Jul 27 Jane Beverly Drew, English modernist architect, dies at 85
• Jul 27 Peter Green, British insurance underwriter (CEO of Lloyd's of London), dies at 71
• Jul 28 Harold Fox, American fashion designer and musician, dies at 86
• Jul 28 Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las - "Leader of the Pack"), dies of breast cancer at 48
• Jul 28 Mickey Fenn, British docker and socialist, dies at 58
• Jul 28 Micky Fenn, British dock worker, trade unionist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist activist, dies at 58
• Jul 28 Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and writer (How to Know Birds), dies at 87
• Jul 29 Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist and politician (first Mayor of Delhi), dies at 88
• Jul 29 Jason Thirsk, American punk rock bassist (Pennywise), dies of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot at 28
• Jul 29 Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician, dies at 75
• Jul 29 Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)

• Jul 30 Father Alan Cheales, British Dominican priest (served 33 years at St Dominic's priory, London), dies at 83
• Jul 30 Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
• Jul 31 Joan Warburton, Scottish painter, dies at 76

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