Timeline July 1996

Events in July 1996 9

• 1903 – 1996 Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) Died 30 July 1996, aged 92 Claudette Colbert was a French-born American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night" in 1934. She was one of the highest-paid and most popular stars of Hollywood's golden age. She died at her home in Barbados after a series of strokes.
• 1954 – 1996 Margaux Hemingway (1954-1996) Died 1 July 1996, aged 42 Margaux Hemingway was an American model and actress, granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, who rose to fame as one of the highest-paid models of the 1970s. She later appeared in films including "Lipstick" alongside her sister Mariel. She died of an overdose in Santa Monica, California, ruled a suicide.
• 1996 Wimbledon 1996 Men: Richard Krajicek · Women: Steffi Graf Krajicek beat Sampras in an upset. Graf's seventh and final Wimbledon title.
• 1996 Boris Yeltsin Re-elected President of Russia Yeltsin defeats Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov Boris Yeltsin won a second term as President of Russia in a runoff election against Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov. The campaign took place amid Yeltsin's declining health and heavy backing from Russian business oligarchs and media. He suffered a serious heart attack shortly before the runoff vote.
• 1996 Independence Day #1 film of 1996 — $817m worldwide Directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. Aliens launch a devastating attack on Earth.
• 1996 Dolly the Sheep is Born First mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell Dolly was born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, cloned from a mammary gland cell using somatic cell nuclear transfer. Her existence was kept secret until announced in February 1997, after which it became one of the most famous scientific breakthroughs of the decade. She lived until 2003 and proved that a specialized adult cell could be reprogrammed to create a whole new organism.
• 1996 TWA Flight 800 Crashes off Long Island Boeing 747 explodes shortly after takeoff, killing 230 TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off East Moriches, New York, minutes after departing JFK Airport for Paris. All 230 people aboard were killed. Investigators concluded the probable cause was an explosion of flammable fuel-air vapors in a nearly empty center fuel tank, though the crash also fueled persistent conspiracy theories.
• 1996 1996 Summer Olympics XXVI Olympiad - Atlanta Centennial Summer Games. Winner: USA.
• 1996 Centennial Olympic Park Bombing Pipe bomb attack during the Atlanta Games kills one and injures over a hundred A pipe bomb detonated in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympics, killing one person and injuring more than a hundred others. Eric Rudolph, an anti-abortion extremist, was later identified as the bomber and captured in 2003. The attack was one of several bombings he carried out over the following years.