the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
October 12 – World population reaches 6 billion people, as the 6 billionth person (according to the UN) is born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
October 13 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
October 15 – A National Geographic Society press conference reveals the fossil of Archaeoraptor (which is later found to be a forgery).
October 27 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
October 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on board.
When the pilot leaves the cockpit, the co-pilot causes the Boeing 767 to enter a steep dive, resulting in impact with the Atlantic Ocean.
October 31 – Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
November 6 – Australians defeat a referendum proposing the replacement of The Queen and The Governor General with a President to make Australia a republic.
November 9 – TAESA Flight 725, covering the route Tijuana–Guadalajara–Uruapan–Mexico City, crashes a few minutes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport, killing 18 people on board.
This event causes the bankruptcy of the Mexican airline a few months later.
November 12 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Duzce and northwestern Turkey, killing 845 and injuring 4,948.
November 18 – The Aggie Bonfire collapses in College Station, TX, killing 12.
November 19 – Mikhail Gorbachev proposes that the UN create an International Men's Day, which is now commemorated every year on this same date.
November 19 – Every digit in this date is an odd number (19/11/1999).
This hitherto common event will not happen again until the year 3111.
November 20 – The People's Republic of China launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft.
November 26 – An earthquake and tsunami strike Vanuatu.
November 27 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government, with leader Helen Clark becoming the second female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
November 30 – The ExxonMobil Corporation merger is completed, forming the largest company in the world.
December 3 – After rowing for 81 days and 2,962 nautical miles (5486 km), Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
December 3 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander, moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
December 18 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform, carrying 5 Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
December 20 – The sovereignty of Macau is transferred from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China after 422 years of Portuguese rule.
December 22 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error.
All 4 crew members were killed.
December 31 – The U.S. turns over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian Government, as stipulated in the Torrijos-Carter Treaty of 1977.
December 31 – Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president.
December 31 - Millennium celebration.
December 31 - To most people, it was the last day of the 20th century and 2nd millennium, however there are some people who argue that both distinctions happened a year later, on December 31, 2000.
January 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
January 11 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
January 11 – Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
January 21 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
January 25 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
January 25 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
January 28 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
January 30 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
January 31 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
February 1 – Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
February 1 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943)
February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
February 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (b. 1924)
February 6 – Don Dunstan, Australian politician (b. 1926)
February 6 - Danny Dayton, American actor (b. 1923)
February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (b. 1919)
February 12 – Toni Fisher, American pop singer (b. 1931)
February 14 – John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1925)
February 14 – Buddy Knox, American singer (b. 1933)
February 15 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
February 15 – Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
February 17 – Sunshine Parker, American actor (b. 1927)
February 18 – Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
February 18 – Michael Larson, American game show celebrity (b. 1949)
February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
February 20 – Gene Siskel, American movie critic (b. 1946)
February 21 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (b. 1918)
February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (b. 1936)
February 24 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (b. 1903)
February 24 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
February 25 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
February 26 – José Quintero, Panamanian director (b. 1924)
February 28 – Bill Talbert, American tennis player (b. 1918)
March 1 – Ann Corio, American dancer and actress (b. 1914)
March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
March 3 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
March 4 – Harry Blackmun, American judge (b. 1908)
March 4 – Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (b. 1934)
March 5 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
March 7 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (b. 1918)
March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director and producer (b. 1928)
March 8 – Peggy Cass, American actress (b. 1924)
March 8 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
March 13 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
March 17 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer (b. 1921)
March 18 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
March 18 – Rod Hull, British entertainer (b. 1935)
March 21 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
March 24 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
March 25 – Cal Ripken, Sr.,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1935)
March 29 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (b. 1922)
April 3 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
April 4 – Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American television actress (b. 1919)
April 12 – Boxcar Willie, American country music singer (b. 1931)
April 14 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
April 14 – Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
April 20 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
April 20 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (b. 1896)
April 21 – Charles Rogers, American actor (b. 1904)
April 25 – Lord Killanin, Irish journalist and Olympic official (b. 1914)
April 25 – Herman Miller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1919)
April 27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922)
April 27 – Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
April 28 – Rory Calhoun, American television and movie actor (b. 1922)
April 28 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
April 30 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
May 8 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921)
May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American writer and poet (b. 1930)
May 10 – Eric Willis, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales (b. 1922)
May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
May 17 – Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
May 23 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
May 26 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
June 5 – Mel Tormé, American singer (b. 1925)
June 6 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
June 8 – Christina Foyle, British bookshop owner (b. 1911)
June 9 – Maurice Journeau, French composer (b. 1898)
June 11 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
June 16 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English politician (b. 1940)
June 27 – Jorgos Papadopoulos, military ruler of Greece (b. 1919)
June 29 – Allan Carr, American producer (b. 1937)
July 1 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American movie director (b. 1908)
July 1 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
July 1 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
July 2 – Mario Puzo, American writer (b. 1920)
July 6 – Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
July 6 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
July 8 – Charles Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
July 11 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
July 12 – Bill Owen, English actor (b. 1914)
July 16 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1960)
July 18 – Meir Ariel, Israeli singer (b. 1942)
July 20 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
July 23 – King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
July 26 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
July 29 – Anita Carter, American singer (b. 1933)
July 29 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian movie actor, producer and director (b. 1929)
August 1 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali writer (b. 1897)
August 3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (b. 1928)
August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
August 13 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (b. 1960)
August 14 – Lane Kirkland, American union leader (b. 1922)
August 14 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
August 23 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
August 23 – James White, Irish writer (b. 1928)
August 24 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress (b. 1916)
September 5 – Allen Funt, American television personality (b. 1914)
September 5 – Alan Clark, English politician and diarist (b. 1928)
September 6 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician and former President (b. 1938)
September 9 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
September 10 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
September 11 – Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguyan race car driver (b. 1972)
September 12 – Allen Stack, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1928)
September 14 – Charles Crichton, English movie director (b. 1910)
September 20 – Raisa Gorbachyova, Soviet first lady (b. 1932)
September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
September 23 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
October 6 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese Fado legend (b. 1920)
October 6 – Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (b. 1937)
October 7 – Helen Vinson, American actress (b. 1907)
October 8 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
October 9 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer in microcredit and microfinance (b. 1914)
October 9 – Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923)
October 11 – Rafi' Daham Al-Tikriti, Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (b. 1937)
October 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
October 14 – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
October 18 – Paddi Edwards, American actress (b. 1931)
October 19 – Harry Bannink, Dutch composer and musician (b. 1929)
October 19 – James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
October 20 – Jack Lynch, Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1917)
October 21 – Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (b. 1924)
October 21 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
October 24 – John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922)
October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
October 26 – Rex Gildo, German singer (b. 1939)
October 26 – Hoyt Axton, American actor and singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
October 26 – Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director (b. 1910)
October 27 – Frank De Vol, American composer (b. 1911)
October 27 – Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
October 27 – Wes Berggren, American musician (b. 1971)
October 31 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
November 1 – Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
November 3 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
November 9 – Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
November 11 – Mary Kay Bergman, American actress (b. 1961)
November 15 – Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (b. 1920)
November 16 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
November 18 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
November 18 – Horst P. Horst, German-American photographer (b. 1906)
November 18 – Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
November 21 – Quentin Crisp, English writer (b. 1908)
November 21 – Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. (
b. 1910)
November 24 – Hilary Minster, British Actor (b. 1944)
November 29 – Gene Rayburn, American television personality (b. 1917)
November 29 – Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player (b. 1902)
November 30 – Charlie Byrd, American Jazz musician and classical guitarist (b. 1925)
December 2 – Joey Adams, American comedian (b. 1911)
December 3 – Scatman John, American musician (b. 1942)
December 3 – Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general (b. 1918)
December 3 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
December 4 – Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
December 8 – Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
December 10 – Rick Danko, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
December 10 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
December 10 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
December 12 – Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
December 12 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (b. 1923)
December 17 – Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1920)
December 17 – Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
December 18 – Robert Bresson, French movie maker (b. 1901)
December 19 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
December 19 – Robert Dougall, British newsreader (b. 1913)
December 20 – Irving Rapper, American movie director (b. 1898)
December 20 – Hank Snow, Canadian musician (b. 1914)
December 23 – John P. Davies, American diplomat (b. 1908)
December 24 – Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and movie actor (b. 1908)
December 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer (b. 1942)
December 27 – Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (b. 1905)
December 28 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
December 30 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
December 30 – Sarah Knauss, American oldest living person (b. 1880)
December 31 – Elliot Richardson, American Attorney General under Richard Nixon (b. 1920)
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South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
The World is Not Enough
...Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
Genie in a Bottle – Christina Aguilera
Livin' la Vida Loca – Ricky Martin
5 (A Little Bit Of...) – Lou Bega
I Need To Know – Marc Anthony
Believe – Cher
No Scrubs - TLC
Angel – Sarah McLachlan
Kiss Me – Sixpence None The Richer
You'll Be in My Heart – Phil Collins
Steal My Sunshine - Len
New – No Doubt
Smooth – Santana featuring Rob Thomas
All Star – Smash Mouth
That Don't Impress Me Much – Shania Twain
Amazed - Lonestar
All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life – Winona LaDuke
Atomised – Michel Houellebecq
Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
Blind Eye – James B. Stewart
The Century – Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
Le Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward) – Marc Dugain
Charlotte Gray – Sebastian Faulks
Chocolat – Joanne Harris
Cunt – Stewart Home
Darwin's Radio – Greg Bear
A Deepness in the Sky – Vernor Vinge
Death du Jour – Kathy Reichs
Dining with Peggy Guggenheim – Jane Turner Rylands
Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
The Fifth Elephant – Terry Pratchett
Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star – Kelly R. Brown
The Fortune Catcher – Susanne Pari
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Hannibal – Thomas Harris
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King
High Time to Kill – Raymond Benson
Holes – Louis Sachar
In America – Susan Sontag
Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
Irresistible Forces – Danielle Steel
A Lake Beyond the Wind – Yahya Yakhlif
The Mark of the Angel – Nancy Huston
Miss Wyoming – Douglas Coupland
One of the Guys – Robert Clark Young
Paradise – Toni Morrison
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain – Jeffrey Moore
Rulers Of Evil – F. Tupper Saussy
Sick Puppy – Carl Hiaasen
Single & Single – John le Carré
Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace – Terry Brooks
Scattered Like Seeds – Shaw J. Dallal
Soul Harvest – Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
Survivor – Chuck Palahniuk
Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre – June Rose
Syrup – Max Barry
'Tis – Frank McCourt
Tara Road – Maeve Binchy
Temple – Matthew Reilly
The Testament – John Grisham
The World Is Not Enough – Raymond Benson
Through the Stones – Diana Gabaldon
Timeline – Michael Crichton
Video games released.
January 1 – Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
January 2 - A gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho, Brazilian politician and radio presenter, in the middle of his broadcast.
January 4-10 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria; over 170 killed in three remote villages.
January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon and later found evidence for frozen water on the moon's surface.
January 8 - Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing.
January 8 - Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
January 11 – Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
January 12 – 19 European nations agree to forbid 1998 like a 1999 one human cloning.
January 14 – Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
January 15 – The stalker of Howard Stern, Lance Carvin, is sentenced to 2 1/2 years for threatening to kill Stern and his family.
January 16 – NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.
January 17 – Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
January 22 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
January 26 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
January 26 - Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.
January 27 – American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today show calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
January 28 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion.
January 28 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
January 29 – In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another.
Serial bomber Eric Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
February 3 - A low-flying US military airplane cuts the cable of a cable car near Trento, Italy, killing 20 people.
February 3 - President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosian resigns.
February 4 - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake kills more than 5,000 people in Northeastern Afghanistan.
February 7-22 - The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in 1998 like a 2000 one for Nagano, Japan.
February 16 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek Airport in Taipei, killing 202 people, including 6 on the ground.
February 20 - Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the US and the UK.
February 20-March 27 - The 1998 Auckland power crisis lasts five weeks.
February 22-23 - The 1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak strikes central Florida, including Orlando.
Forty-two people are killed.
February 26 - A solar eclipse is seen over the Caribbean Sea.
March 2 - Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
March 2 - In Austria, Natascha Kampusch is kidnapped by Wolfgang Priklopil, being held in captivity until August 2006.
March 11 - Prime Minister of Denmark Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
March 24 - A cyclone hits Bangladesh.
March 26 - In Algeria, 52 people are killed in the Oued Bouaicha massacre.
April 5 - The Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is opened to traffic in Japan, connecting Honshu and Shikoku.
April 6 - Pakistan tests a medium-range missile.
April 10 - In Northern Ireland the Good Friday Agreement is signed by the British and Irish governments and most political parties in Northern Ireland.
April 29 - The Kyoto Protocol is signed.
May 11 - India conducts 3 underground nuclear tests.
May 21 - Suharto resigns as President of Indonesia, with Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie succeeding him.
May 26 - Bear Grylls becomes the youngest British person to climb Mount Everest.
May 28 – Pakistan explodes 5 nuclear devices.
May 30 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake kills up to 5,000 people in Afghanistan.
June 3 - An ICE high speed train derails at Eschede between Hanover and Hamburg, killing 101 people.
June 7 - The Guinea-Bissau Civil War begins.
June 30 - Joseph Estrada becomes the 13th President of the Philippines.
July 5 - Japan launches a probe to Mars.
July 6 - Hong Kong International Airport opens.
July 12 - The France national football team wins the FIFA World Cup on home soil against the Brazil national football team, 3-0.
July 17 - At a conference in Rome 120 countries vote to create an International Criminal Court.
July 17 - A tsunami is triggered by an undersea earthquake off Papua New Guinea, destroying  10 villages and killing thousands of people.
July 17 - 80 years after being executed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried at the St. Catherine chapel in Saint Petersburg.
August 2 - The Second Congo War begins.
August 7 - Andres Pastrana Arango becomes President of Colombia.
August 7 - During major flooding the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank, with the death toll exceeding 12,000 people.
August 7 - The US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania are bombed, killing 224 people.
Al-Qaeda is believed to be responsible.
August 10 - Jamil Mahuad becomes President of Ecuador.
August 15 - The Omagh bombing is carried out by the IRA in Northern Ireland.
August 17 - Bill Clinton admits having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
August 24 - The first RFID human implantation  is tested in the United Kingdom.
August 28 - Said Musa becomes Prime Minister of Belize.
September 2 - Swissair Flight 111, travelling from New York City to Geneva, crashes off the coast of Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada, killing all 229 people on board.
September 4 - Google Inc. is founded in California by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
September 27 - After 16 years as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Helmut Kohl of the CDU is voted out, with the SPD's Gerhard Schroeder being elected to succeed him.
October 3 - John Howard is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of Australia.
October 8 - Oslo Gardermoen Airport opens.
October 14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with four bombings in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996.
October 16 - While receiving medical treatment in the UK, Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest under an arrest warrant from Spain.
October 17 - 1,082 people are killed when an oil pipeline in Nigeria explodes.
October 27 - Gerhard Schroeder becomes Chancellor of Germany, officially succeeding Helmut Kohl.
October 29 - Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, causing a large amount of destruction and killing over 18,000 people across Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
November 3 - Hurricane Mitch weakens after leaving a trail of destruction across Central America.
November 20 - A Russian Proton rocket is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
November 26 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to speak at the Irish Parliament.
December 6 - Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela, taking office in February 1999.
December 16 - Bill Clinton orders air strikes on Iraq.
December 29 - Khmer Rouge leaders apologise for the genocide committed in Cambodia under Pol Pot's rule.
December 31 - An extra leap second is added onto the end of the year.
January 28 - Ariel Winter, American actress
February 25 – Brendon Baerg, American actor
April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress
April 24 - Ryan Newman, American actress
April 28 - Byron Ward, American Basketball Player
June 15 – Rachel Covey, American actress
July 1 - Hollie Steel, English singer
July 8 - Jaden Smith, American actor
July 24 – Bindi Irwin, Australian-American conservationist, singer & actress
August 8 - Ronan Parke, English singer
September 21 – Lorenzo Brino, American actor
September 21 – Myrinda Brino, American actress
September 21 – Nikolas Brino, American actor
September 21 – Zachary Brino, American actor
October 6 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
November 23 - Bradley Steven Perry, American actor and singer
January 1 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (born 1905)
January 5 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (born 1935)
January 7 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (born 1906)
January 8 - Michael Tippett, English composer (born 1905)
January 9 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (born 1918)
January 11 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (born 1926)
January 19 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (born 1932)
January 21 - Jack Lord, American actor (born 1920)
January 23 - Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (born 1958)
January 28 - Shotari Ishinomari, Japanese manga artist (born 1938)
February 6 - Falco, Austrian singer and musician (born 1957)
February 6 - Carl Wilson, American musician (born 1946)
February 8 - Halldor Laxness, Icelandic writer (born 1902)
February 8 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and writer (born 1932)
February 8 - Enoch Powell, British politician (born 1912)
February 17 - Ernst Juenger, German writer (born 1895)
February 26 - Theodore Schultz, American economist (born 1902)
February 27 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist (born 1905)
February 28 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (born 1952)
March 3 - Fred W. Friendly, American television journalist and executive (born 1915)
March 10 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (born 1913)
March 12 - Judge Dread, English musician (born 1945)
March 12 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (born 1893)
March 12 - Jozef Kroner, Slovakian actor (born 1924)
March 15 - Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician and writer (born 1903)
March 16 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist (born 1918)
March 21 - Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (born 1910)
March 25 - Daniel Massey, British actor (born 1933)
March 27 - Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian automobile designer and businessman (born 1909)
March 31 - Bella Abzug, American politician (born 1920)
April 1 - Gene Evans, American actor (born 1920)
April 2 - Rob Pilatus, member of the pop group Milli Vanilli (born 1965)
April 6 - Tammy Wynette, American singer (born 1942)
April 15 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (born 1925)
April 16 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (born 1880)
April 17 - Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (born 1941)
April 19 - Octavio Paz, Mexican writer (born 1914)
April 23 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (born 1907)
April 23 - James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 1928)
April 25 - Christian Mortensen, Danish-born American supercentenarian (born 1882)
April 27 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and writer (born 1925)
May 1 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (born 1935)
May 2 - Hide, Japanese musician (born 1964)
May 2 - Justin Fashanu, English footballer (born 1961)
May 2 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (born 1949)
May 7 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-born physicist (born 1924)
May 14 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and entertainer (born 1915)
May 19 - Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1922)
May 22 - John Derek, American actor and movie director (born 1926)
May 28 - Phil Hartman, Canadian-born American artist, writer, actor and comedian (born 1948)
May 29 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (born 1909)
June 2 - Junkyard Dog, American professional wrestler (born 1952)
June 8 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (born 1943)
June 11 - Catherine Cookson, British writer (born 1906)
June 13 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (born 1911)
June 23 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (born 1911)
July 3 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (born 1949)
July 19 - Elmer Valo, Slovakian baseball player (born 1921)
July 21 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (born 1923)
July 30 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's TV host (born 1917)
August 1 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (born 1927)
August 3 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (born 1934)
August 4 - Yuri Artyukhin, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1930)
August 5 - Todor Zivkov, Bulgarian Communist leader (born 1911)
August 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (born 1906)
August 9 - Frankie Ruiz, Puerto-Rican singer (born 1958)
August 26 - Frederick Reines, American physicist (born 1918)
September 2 - Allen Drury, American writer (born 1918)
September 5 - Leo Penn, American actor and director (born 1921)
September 6 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer and director (born 1910)
September 13 - George Wallace, American politician (born 1919)
September 14 - Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician (born 1907)
September 21 - Florence Griffith-Joyner, American athlete (born 1959)
September 26 - Betty Carter, American singer (born 1929)
September 29 - Tom Bradley, American politician, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (born 1917)
October 3 - Roddy McDowall, British actor (born 1928)
October 14 - Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (born 1915)
October 17 - Joan Hickson, British actress (born 1906)
October 28 - Ted Hughes, British poet (born 1930)
November 3 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (born 1915)
November 8 - Jean Marais, French actor (born 1913)
November 10 - Mary Millar, British actress (born 1917)
November 25 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (born 1906)
December 2 - Brian Stonehouse, British painter and World War II secret agent (born 1918)
December 7 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist (born 1925)
December 16 - William Gaddis, American writer (born 1922)
December 17 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (born 1959)
December 20 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (born 1914)
December 28 - Robert Rosen, American biologist (born 1934)
December 30 - Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese movie director (born 1912)
December 30 - George Webb, British actor (born 1911)
Physics - Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stroemer, Daniel Chee Tsui
Chemistry - Walter Kohn, John Pople
Physiology or Medicine - Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
Literature - Jose Saramago
Nobel Peace Prize - John Hume, David Trimble
Economics - Amartya Sen
Human Remains Hurlyburly Lethal Weapon 4 Lost in Space The Mask of Zorro Mulan The Negotiator Pi Pleasantville Rushmore Shakespeare in Love Six Days Seven Nights Small Soldiers The Thin Red Line Very Bad Things The Waterboy The Wedding Singer The Parent Trap''
"Never Ever" - All Saints
"Ray Of Light" – Madonna
"Cruel Summer" – Ace of Base
"Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It"- Will Smith
"The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy Norwood and Monica (entertainer)
"My Heart Will Go On" – Céline Dion
"Goodbye (song)" - Spice Girls
"Crush" – Jennifer Paige
"Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" – The Offspring
"The Dope Show"-Marilyn Manson
"Dragula" - Rob Zombie
"Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)" – Green Day
"Iris" – Goo Goo Dolls
"I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" – Aerosmith
"One Week"-Barenaked Ladies
"The Way" – Fastball
"Uninvited" – Alanis Morissette
"You're Still The One" – Shania Twain
"This Kiss" - Faith Hill
"Nothin' But The Tailights" - Clint Black
February 13 - Prince Michael Jackson I, American actor, singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, record producer and voice actor
April 1 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
May 1 – Ariel Gade, American actress
September 8 – Matthew Josten, American actor
November 16 – Alex Polidori, Italian actress and younger sister of Gabriele Patriarca
November 19 – McCaughey septuplets, famous American set of septuplets
July 18 - Maria Nikka Feliselda, Filipina Bassist
August 10 – Kylie Jenner, American television personality and founder of Kylie Cosmetics
January – March
January 9 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Polish politician (b. 1909)
January 10 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist (b. 1907)
January 10 – Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, director (b. 1907)
January 12 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian cancer researcher (b. 1901)
January 15 – Helenio Herrera, Argentine football manager (b. 1916)
January 17 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (b. 1923)
January 20 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
January 21 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born American celebrity manager (b. 1909)
February 1 – Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916)
February 2 – Chico Science, Brazilian musician (automobile accident) (b. 1967)
February 5 – Pamela Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
February 11 – Don Porter, American actor (b. 1912)
February 19 – Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (b. 1904)
February 21 – Josef Posipal, German footballer (b. 1927)
March 6 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
March 9 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
March 14 – Fred Zinnemann, American director (b. 1907)
March 19 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
April – June
April 5 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
April 7 – Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
April 7 – Witto Aloma, Major League Baseball player (b. 1923)
April 11 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
April 12 – George Wald, American scientist (b. 1903)
April 17 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (b. 1918)
May 2 – John Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist (b. 1903)
May 16 – Giuseppe De Santis, Italian movie director (b. 1917)
May 22 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
May 29 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (accidental drowning) (b. 1966)
June 2 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908)
June 6 – Magda Gabor, American actress (b. 1914)
June 14 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
June 23 – Betty Shabazz, American widow of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
June 25 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French underwater explorer and movie maker (b. 1910)
June 26 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
June 29 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
July – September
July 1 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
July 2 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
July 15 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
July 18 – Eugene Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
July 24 – Frank Parker, American tennis player (b. 1916)
August 2 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
August 4 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, longest-lived human ever (b. 1875)
August 8 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
August 12 – Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
August 23 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (b. 1917)
August 30 – Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (b. 1931)
August 31 – Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
August 31 – Dodi al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (b. 1955)
September 5 – Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and missionary (b. 1910)
September 7 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (b. 1930)
September 9 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
September 18 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer (b. 1920)
September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
October – December
October 5 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
October 12 – John Denver, American musician (b. 1943)
October 16 – James A. Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
October 22 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
October 30 – Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter and director (b. 1912)
November 22 – Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (b. 1960)
November 25 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1907)
December 1 – Stephane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
December 7 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
December 18 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
December 20 – Juzo Itami, Japanese movie director (b. 1933)
December 27 – Billy Wright, Northern Irish paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
January 1 – Kofi Annan becomes Secretary-General of the UN.
January 8 – Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
January 9 – Yachtsman Tony Bullimore is found alive five days after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean.
January 18 – In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound 1 other.
January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
January 20 – Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States.
January 21 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
January 22 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.
January 23 – Mir Aimal Kasi receives the death sentence for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed 2 and wounded 3 others.
January 27 – It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
January 28 – Clive Davis receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
February 22 – Scientists in Scotland announce the cloning of Dolly, born on July 5, 1996.
February 23 – A small fire occurs on the Mir space station.
February 27 – Divorce becomes legal in the Republic of Ireland.
March 6 – Guyana's President Cheddi Jagan dies in office.
March 22 – At age 14, Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest figure skating world champion.
March 24 – The movie The English Patient wins an Academy Award for best picture.
April 29 – 126 people are killed in a train crash in Hunan, China.
May 1 – Tony Blair of the Labour Party is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a landslide victory over the Conservatives, who lose all of their seats in Scotland and Wales, and lose power after 18 years in Government.
May 3 – Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom.
May 10 – An earthquake in northeastern Iran kills 2400 people.
May 16 – Mobutu Sese Seko leaves Zaire.
May 17 – Laurent Kabila's troops enter Kinshasa, as Zaire changes its name to Democratic Republic of the Congo.
May 23 – Mohammad Khatami is elected President of Iran.
June 13 – Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
June 25 – The town of Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montserrat is evacuated as the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts.
June 26 – Bertie Ahern becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
July 1 – The United Kingdom hands control of Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China.
July 15 – Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead in Florida by spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
July 25 – K. R. Narayanan becomes President of India.
August 4 – Jeanne Calment dies after a record human lifespan of 122 years and 164 days.
August 6 – Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands on the island of Guam, killing 228 people.
August 31 – Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi al-Fayed and their driver Henri Paul are killed in a car crash in Paris.
September 5 – The 2004 Summer Olympics are awarded to Athens, Greece.
September 6 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
It is watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.
September 11 – Voters in Scotland approve the creation of their own regional parliament in a referendum.
September 18 – Voters in Wales approve the creation of their own Assembly in a referendum.
September 26 – The regions of Umbria and Marche in Italy are hit by a strong earthquake.
September 26 - An Airbus A300 of Garuda Indonesia Airlines crashes in Medan, Sumatra, killing all 234 people on board.
October 15 – NASA launches the Cassini-Huygens probe to Saturn.
October 16 – The New York Times' first colour photographs appear.
November 11 – Mary McAleese is chosen to succeed Mary Robinson as President of the Republic of Ireland, marking the first-ever woman to woman Presidential transfer.
November 17 – 62 people are killed by Islamist terrorists in Luxor, Egypt.
December 11 – The Kyoto protocol is approved by a UN committee.
December 19 – Janet Jagan becomes President of Guyana, succeeding her deceased husband, Cheddi Jagan.
December 19 – James Cameron's movie Titanic is released in the US.
Other significant events
Algerian Civil War: Hundreds of people are killed in massacres throughout the year.
Chemistry: Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
Economics: Robert C. Merton, Myron C. Scholes
Literature: Dario Fo
Nobel Peace Prize: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
Physics: Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
Medicine: Stanley B. Prusiner
Movies Released
Cop Land
Home Alone 3 Into Thin Air L.A. Confidential Liar Liar
Mononoke Hime My Best Friend's Wedding Suicide Kings The Fifth Element The Full Monty The Ice Storm The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Power Rangers Turbo: The Movie
American Pastoral  –  Philip Roth
Are You Experienced? –
William Sutcliffe
Barney's Version –  Mordecai Richler
The Best Laid Plans  –  Sidney Sheldon
The Bible Code  –  Michael Drosnin
Budgie: The Little Helicopter – Sarah Ferguson
Cat & Mouse  –  James Patterson
Cold Mountain  –  Charles Frazier
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs  –  Dave Barry
Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs
Diana: Her True Story – Andrew Morton
Everyday Wicca – Gerina Dunwich
Fall On Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Ghost  –  Danielle Steel
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – J. K. Rowling
Hornet's Nest  –  Patricia Cornwell
I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (translation) – Marie Bashkirtseff
Instruments of Darkness – Nancy Huston
Jingo – Terry Pratchett
Larry's Party  –  Carol Shields
Last Standing Woman – Winona LaDuke
Moab Is My Washpot – Stephen Fry (autobiography)
Morisson of Peking – Cyril Pearl
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet – Karen Armstrong
Night Train – Martin Amis
The Partner  –  John Grisham
Pretend You Don't See Her – Mary Higgins Clark
The Ranch  –  Danielle Steel
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Special Delivery  –  Danielle Steel
The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Soul of Montmartre – Reinhold Heller
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
Unnatural Exposure  –  Patricia Cornwell
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination – Gerina Dunwich
Candle in the Wind 1997 – Elton John
"MMMBop" – Hanson
"Wannabe" – The Spice Girls
"A Long December" – Counting Crows
"All By Myself" – Céline Dion
"Bitch" – Meredith Brooks
"Don't Speak" – No Doubt
"Forty Six & 2" – Tool
"Longneck Bottle" – Garth Brooks
"Magdalene" – Lenny Kravitz
"Silver Springs" – Fleetwood Mac
"The Difference" – The Wallflowers
"Volcano" – Presidents of the United States of America
"You Were Meant For Me" – Jewel
1996 (MCMXCVI) was .
It was also a common year starting on Tuesday of the obsolete Julian calendar.
January 7 – The Eastern US is hit by a 1996.
It was almost the same as the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002 blizzards.
It killed more than 150 people.
January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
January 15 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho dies in a car crash.
January 16 – Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane.
U2 singer Bono was also on the plane, but neither singer was injured.
January 18 – Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson.
January 29 – Garth Brooks refuses to accept his American Music Award for "Favorite Overall Artist".
Brooks says that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did it.
January 29 – Jacques Chirac announces the end of French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.
February 4 – An earthquake of magnitude 7 in southwestern China kills more than 240 people.
February 4 – Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California.
Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.
February 6 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near the Dominican Republic, killing 189 people.
February 10 – The computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in a chess match.
February 14 – The Artist Formerly Known As Prince marries backup singer Mayte Garcia.
February 20 – Snoop Doggy Dogg and his bodyguard acquitted of first degree murder.
The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges and a mistrial is declared.
March 2 – John Howard is elected Prime Minister of Australia, taking office on March 11.
March 4 – The Beatles' second reunion song is released, as part of their first reuinion since the band's breakup 26 years earlier.
The song is simply a finished version of a John Lennon demo from 1980; a song called Real Love.
March 13 – Dunblane massacre: Thomas Hamilton kills 16 pupils and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland.
March 13 – Ramones fans riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina after waiting all night for concert tickets only to find out that the show had been sold out.
March 16 – Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men ends its 16th consecutive week at No.
1 with "One Sweet Day".
It is the longest consecutive week stay at No.
1 in Billboard Hot 100 history.
March 17 – Sri Lanka wins the cricket World Cup.
March 18 – The Sex Pistols announce that they are reuniting for a 20th anniversary tour.
March 28 – Phil Collins announces that he is leaving Genesis to focus on his solo career.
April 3 – M.C. Hammer files for bankruptcy.
April 4 – The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia's widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia's ashes in the Ganges River in India.
1996 like a 1992 one.
April 15 – The remaining part of Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
April 24 – This Train, Rick Elias, Jimmy A, Phil Keaggy, Carolyn Arends, Third Day & Ashley Cleveland perform a tribute concert for Rich Mullins at Nashville's Cafe Milano.
Speakers included Reunion Records executive Terry Hemmings, record producer Reed Arvin, disc jockey Jon Rivers, & writer Brennan Manning.
April 28 – Port Arthur massacre: Martin Bryant kills 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
May 8 – In Los Angeles, California, a judge rules against Tommy Lee and wife actress Pamela Anderson Lee in their attempt to keep Penthouse magazine from publishing still photos taken from an X-rated home movie which was stolen from their home.
May 11 – Everest disaster: A sudden storm kills 8 people on Mount Everest.
May 31 – The hosting of the 2002 FIFA World Cup is given to Japan and South Korea, marking the time that Asia gets to host the FIFA World Cup.
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June 1 – Deve Gowda becomes Prime Minister of India.
June 15 – An IRA bomb injures over 200 people in Manchester.
June 23 – The Nintendo 64 game system is released in Japan.