A 81-day-long standoff begins between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, USA.
Tag: 1996
25 January 1996
Billy Bailey was the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
26 December 1996
JonBenét Ramsey, the 6 year old beauty queen is found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Colorado.
28 April 1996
President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense during Whitewater controversy.
13 March 1996
The Dunblane massacre Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Watt Hamilton who then commits suicide.
5 January 1996
A Hamas bombmaker, Yahya Ayyash, is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped mobile phone.
17 July 1996
Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 explodes, killing all on board.