Week of July 8, 1996
Riots in Northern Ireland shatter the area’s peace process. It started with a
Protestant parade in the Catholic region of Belfast. One is dead.
Richard Lee Guthrie Jr. - a member of a right-wing extremist group of bank
robbers, was found dead of an apparent suicide in a country jail in Kentucky.
Britain’s Price Charles and Princess Diana announce that hey have agreed on
terms of a divorce that will strip Diana of her royal title but award her for a
settlement rumored to include a lump sum of $25 million.
The House passes a measure that defines marriage as a heterosexual union
only and limits marriage rights for gay men and lesbians.
The House votes to allow the government to issue guidelines on repetitive stress
injuries, the nation’s fastest-growing workplace health problem.
Defense Secretary
William J.
Perry
told a senate committee
that he and his top military
commanders had
underestimated the threat of
terrorism before last month’s
deadly truck-bomb attack in
Dhahran.
Hurricane Bertha lashes San
Juan with winds of 85mph as
well as the Virgin Islands.
The Galileo spacecraft sends
back detailed pictures of the
Jupiter moon after its six-year
journey through space.
Scientists are elated.
Passing - Melvin Belli - the
San Francisco lawyer called
“the King of Torts.” He was 88.
Sports -
Daryl Strawberry, who was
0
for
10
since being signed by the Yankees - breaks
out of his slump with two two-run homers in a game against the Orioles.
Week of July 8, 1996
All-Starr game - Mike Piazza gets MVP as the National League trounces the
American League - 6-0.
Boxing at Madison Square Garden - Andrew Golota is disqualified in a
heavyweight fight against Riddick Bowe for throwing four low blows. A melee
then erupted.
At Wimbledon - Richard Krajicek wins his first Grand Slam title.
Shaquille O’Neal signs a seven-year $95 million deal with the LA Lakers.
Meanwhile - Michael Jordan resigns with the Chicago Bulls - but for only a year.
For $30 million.
Music news -
Don’t miss the Cranberries “Free to Decide” world tour ’96-‘97.
MTV is launching M2 - another channel -
featuring older music - on August
1.
The nation’s six largest
makers of compact discs
have been accused of
scheming to keep CD prices
artificially high - even though
costs have come down. The
cost of making a CD use to
cost $3 in 1983 and costs
less than $1 now, yet the
minimum advertised price of
a CD around $11.80 and
$16.98 retail.
The fifth annual H.O.R.D.E.
rock festival kicks-off its 40-
city tour in Wisconsin.
Top Heavy Metal albums -
Down on the Upside -
Soundgarden
Lead - Metallica
Mellon Callie and the Infinite
Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine
Music for Our Mother Ocean - various artists
Week of July 8, 1996
Sixteen Stone - Bush
Electricherryland - Butthole Surfers
Tiny Music… Sounds From the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots
311- 311
Television news -
Concerned callers called CNN after watching reporter Jeff Lock standing in gale
force winds as Hurricane Bertha reached North Carolina’s coast. The Weather
Channel would steal this idea later.
MTV announces plans for a weekly show hosted by Dennis Rodman and is
developing a variety show starring “singled out” co-host Jenny McCarthy.
Kathleen Sullivan
, who anchored the E! Daily
News with Steve Kmetko - is out.
At the movies
-
Independence Day
Nutty Professor
Phenomenon
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Eraser
The Rock
Striptease
Twister
Mission: Impossible
Cable Guy
