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1994 FIFA World Cup qualification A total of 147 teams entered the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for a total of 24 spots in the final tournament. United States, as the hosts, and Germany, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 22 spots open for competition.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the African zone (CAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the North, Central American and Caribbean zone (CONCACAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the South American zone (CONMEBOL). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Oceanian zone (OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 Golden Raspberry Awards The 15th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 26, 1995 at the El Rey Hotel in Los Angeles, California to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1994. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1994 Governor General's Awards Each winner of the 1994 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges set up by the Canada Council for the Arts.
1994 Group The 1994 Group is a coalition of 'smaller research-intensive universities' founded to defend their interests after the larger research-intensive universities founded the Russell Group. They describe themselves as "internationally recognised universities in Britain, who share common aims, standards and values.
1994 in NASCAR The 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Season began on Sunday February 20 and ended on Sunday November 13. Dale Earnhardt of Richard Childress Racing was crowned champion at season's end, winning consecutive Winston Cups for the third time in his career and tying Richard Petty for the record of most top-level NASCAR championships with seven.
1994 Kangaroo Tour The 1994 Kangaroo Tour was the last played in the conventional format, where the Australian side plays a number of matches against British provincial outfits, in additions to the Test matches. The outbreak of the Super League war meant that the next Kangaroo Tour, set for 1998, never eventuated; although a shortened Tour was staged in 2001.
1994 Memorial Cup The 1994 Memorial Cup occurred May 14-May 22 at the Colisée de Laval in Laval, Quebec. Participating teams were the host Laval Titan from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, as well as the winners of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Chicoutimi Saguenéens, North Bay Centennials and Kamloops Blazers.
1994 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The sixteenth edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Thursday March 17 until Friday March 25 1994 in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. Participating nations were: titleholders Australia, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, hosting nation Pakistan, and Spain.
1994 NBA Playoffs The 1994 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1993-1994 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets defeating the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks four games to three in the NBA Finals.
1994 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season saw yet another controversial finish as both Nebraska and Penn State finished undefeated, and yet Penn State finished a distant second in the final AP and UPI polls. The controversial finish, however, could have gotten even worse before disaster was averted late in the season.
1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 2, 1994, and ended with the championship game on April 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1994 NFL season The 1994 NFL season was the 75th regular season of the National Football League. To honor the NFL's 75th season, a special anniversary logo was designed and each player wore a patch on their jerseys with this logo throughout the season.
1994 Pacific hurricane season The 1994 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1994 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1994 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1994. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
1994 Paez river earthquake The Paez river disaster was caused by a rather superficial earthquake (with a 10 km deep epicentre, 6.4 on the Richter scale) and subsequent mudslide that destroyed the small town of Paez, located on the foothills of the Central Cordillera of the Andes in Cauca province in South-western Colombia, which took place on the 6th of June of 1994.
1994 PDC World Darts Championship The 1994 Skol World Darts Championships was held following 18 months of controversy within the sport of darts. After the 1993 Embassy World Championships, several players decided it was time to part company with the British Darts Organisation (who had always organised the World Championship) and form their own organisation.
1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution The 1994 reform to the Argentine Constitution was approved on 22 August, as a result of the Olivos Pact between by that time president of Argentina Carlos SaĂşl Menem, and the former president and leader of the opposition RaĂşl AlfonsĂn.
1994 South American Games The V South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1994 in Valencia, Venezuela, with some events in Puerto Cabello and Caracas. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR).
1994 Stanley Cup Finals The National Hockey League’s 1994 Stanley Cup Finals saw the Eastern Conference Champion New York Rangers defeat the Western Conference Champion Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 3 in the best-of-seven game series. The series took place between May 31 and June 14, 1994.
1994 Stanley Cup riot The 1994 Stanley Cup Riot occurred in Downtown Vancouver on the evening of June 14, 1994 and continued into the following morning. The riot arose from the result of Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals in which the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers.
1994 Tour de France The 1994 Tour de France was the 81st Tour de France and included two stages in England (twenty years after the tour first visited), Stage 4, Dover to Brighton and Stage 5, around Portsmouth. It took place July 2 to July 24, 1994.
1994 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship The UEFA U-21 Championship 1994, which spanned two years (1992-94), had 32 entrants. After the quarter-finals stage, France were chosen as the first hosts of the final stages, comprising of four matches in total.
1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, USA; Ă–stersund/Ă…re, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria.
1994 World Series The 1994 World Series was cancelled on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which had begun on August 12. It was only the second time in the event's history (and the first time since 1904) that the Fall Classic was not played.
1994-1995 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup The 1994-1995 cross-country skiing World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for cross-country skiers. The World Cup was organised by the International Ski Federation who also run world cups and championships in ski jumping, snowboarding and alpine skiing amongst others.
1994-95 NBA season The 1994-95 NBA season was the 49th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Houston Rockets defeating the Orlando Magic 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals to win the franchise's 2nd championship.
1994-95 United States network television schedule This was the broadcast television schedule on all four United States commercial television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1994. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
1994-95 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all four commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1994 and ending in the spring of 1995. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1995 American League Division Series The 1995 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1995 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Sunday, October 8, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. As a result of both leagues realigning into three divisions in 1994, it marked the first time in major league history that a team could qualify for postseason play without finishing in first place in its league or division.
1995 American League Championship Series The 1995 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 1995 American League playoffs, matched the Central Division champion Cleveland Indians against the Western Division champion Seattle Mariners. The Mariners had the home field advantage, which was predetermined and assigned to either the Western Division champion or their opponent in the previous round.
1995 An-70 air disaster On February 10, 1995, at 16:09 CET, the first prototype of the Ukrainian Antonov An-70 transport aircraft crashed during a test flight in Kyiv Oblast. The plane belonging to Antonov company collided with an escorting An-72 plane and fell into a forested area.
1995 Atlantic hurricane season The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1995, and lasted until November 30, 1995. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship The FIFA U-17 World Championship 1995 was held in the cities of Guayaquil, Portoviejo, Quito, Ibarra, Cuenca, and Riobamba in Ecuador between 3 August and 20 August 1995. Players born after 1 August 1978 could participate in this tournament.
1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships took place March 9-19, 1995 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. This marked the second time the championships were held outside of Europe (The first was in Lake Placid, New York, USA in 1950.
1995 Golden Raspberry Awards The 16th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 24, 1996 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1995. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1995 Governor General's Awards The 1995 Governor General's Literary Awards were presented by Roméo LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada on November 14 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000 and a copy of their books specially bound by master bookbinder Pierre Ouvard.
1995 in Indy Lights The 1995 PPG/Firestone Indy Lights Championship consisted of 12 races. Canadian Greg Moore completely dominated the season, winning 10 times and winning the championship by over 100 points over his closest rival.
1995 King Fahd Cup The 1995 King Fahd Cup tournament was the second and last tournament held under the King Fahd Cup name before the competition was taken over by FIFA and renamed the FIFA Confederations Cup. It was hosted by Saudi Arabia in January of 1995.
1995 Masters Snooker The 1995 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 5 and February 12, 1995 at the Wembley Conference Centre. Wild card players for 1995 were future World and Masters Champions, John Higgins who had won the Grand Prix 4 months previously and Mark Williams, both 19 years old.
1995 Memorial Cup The 1995 Memorial Cup occurred May 13-May 21 at the Riverside Coliseum in Kamloops, British Columbia. Participating teams were the host Kamloops Blazers, who were also the champions of the Western Hockey League, as well as the WHL runner-up Brandon Wheat Kings, and the winners of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League, which were the Hull Olympiques and the Detroit Jr.
1995 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The seventeenth edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday September 23 until Sunday October 1 1995 in the Olympia Stadium in Berlin, Germany. Participating nations were: Australia, England, hosting nation Germany, India, The Netherlands, and titleholders Pakistan.
1995 National League Division Series The 1995 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1995 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Saturday, October 7, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. As a result of both leagues realigning into three divisions in 1994, it marked the first time in major league history that a team could qualify for postseason play without finishing in first place in its league or division.
1995 National League Championship Series The 1995 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of baseball's 1995 National League playoffs, matched the Eastern Division champion Atlanta Braves against the Central Division champion Cincinnati Reds. The Reds had the home field advantage.
1995 NATO bombing in Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1995 NATO bombing in Bosnia and Herzegovina (code-named by NATO Operation Deliberate Force) was a sustained air campaign conducted by the North-Atlantic military organization to undermine the military capability of the Bosnian Serb Army who threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia. The operation was carried out between 30 August and 20 September 1995, involving 400 aircraft and 5000 personnel from 15 nations.
1995 NBA Playoffs The 1995 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1994-1995 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets winning their second consecutive NBA championship by defeating the Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic four games to none in the NBA Finals.
1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 1, 1995, and ended with the championship game on April 3 at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington.
1995 Pacific hurricane season The 1995 Pacific hurricane season was the least active Pacific hurricane season since 1979. Of the eleven tropical cyclones that formed during the season, four affected land, with the most notable storm of the season being Hurricane Ismael, which killed at least 116Â people in Mexico.
1995 Pakistani coup d'Ă©tat attempt The Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 was a secretive plot hatched by renegade military officers and Islamist groups against the government of Benazir Bhutto, the then-Prime Minister of Pakistan. The plotters aimed to overthrow the constitutional government and establish an Islamic State or caliphate in Pakistan.
1995 Palo Verde derailment The 1995 Palo Verde derailment happened on October 9, 1995, when an Amtrak Sunset Limited train derailed near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve train cars derailed, four of them falling 30 feet off a bridge into a dry river bed.
1995 PBA season The 1995 PBA season was the twenty-first season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The Sunkist Orange Juicers team won the first two conferences as it came close to winning the league's fifth Grand Slam only to be denied by a playoff loss to the Shell Velocity team in the Governor's Cup.
1995 PDC World Darts Championship The 1995 Proton Cars World Darts Championships was the second year that the Professional Darts Corporation (then known as the World Darts Council, WDC) held their own World Championships following an acrimonious split from the British Darts Organisation during 1992/93. Proton Cars took over the sponsorship from Skol, who had sponsored the inaugural event in 1994.
1995 Rugby League Emerging Nations Tournament The 1995 Rugby League Emerging Nations Tournament was held alongside the Centenary Rugby League World Cup. Although the competition received little build-up or promotion, the novelty value of the teams taking part encourage relatively large crowds, and the competition was a success.
1995 Rugby League World Cup The eleventh Rugby League World Cup was badged the Centenary World Cup, reflecting the fact that 1995 marked the 100th birthday of the sport. The competition was envisaged as a celebration of rugby league, and the size of the competition was doubled with five additional teams qualifying for the tournament.
1995 Sudamericano Femenino The 1991 Sudamericano Femenino was held in Uberlândia, Brazil between January 1 & 22. It was the second staging of the Sudamericano Femenino and determined the CONMEBOL's single qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1995 — the winner Brazil.
1995 UEFA Champions League Final The 1995 UEFA Champions League Final was the 40th edition and took place in Vienna between AFC Ajax and AC Milan. It was Milan's fifth European Cup final in seven years and they were aiming to emulate Real Madrid's record of the European Cup six times.
1995 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier The third Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifier for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from Wednesday November 15 to Saturday November 26, 1995. Eight nations took part, and they played a round robin.
1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin, Germany from May 4 to May 15. The eighth edition of this competition, held a year before the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
1995 World Matchplay Darts The 1995 Websters World Matchplay was the second annual World Matchplay darts tournament organised by the World Darts Council (WDC, which became the Professional Darts Corporation in 1997). The Winter Gardens, Blackpool played host to the event for the second year running.
1995 World Series The 1995 World Series matched the Atlanta Braves against the Cleveland Indians, with the Braves winning in six games to capture its third World Championship in franchise history (along with 1914 in Boston and 1957 in Milwaukee), and their first championship since moving to Atlanta in 1966. The Series was also Cleveland's first Series appearance in 41 years and marked the resumption of the Fall Classic after the previous year's Series was cancelled due to a players' strike.
1995-96 Cuban National Series The regular season of the 35th Cuban National Series was dominated by Villa Clara, seeking to match Industriales' record from the early 1960s. However, the Leones were able to defend their record by upending the Naranjas in the final.
1995-96 Heineken Cup The 1995-96 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) was the first of the series. Competing teams, from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales and for the only time so far Romania (teams from England and Scotland were not permitted to enter the competition by the RFU and SRU respectively), were divided into four pools of three, in which teams played each other only once, meaning one home and one away games per team.
1995-96 NBA season The 1995-96 NBA season was the 50th season of the National Basketball Association, although the league didn't celebrate this anniversary until the following season. The season ended with the Chicago Bulls defeating the Seattle SuperSonics 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals to win the franchise's 4th championship.
1995-96 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all four commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1995 and ending in the spring of 1996. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1996 American League Division Series The 1996 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1996 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 1, and ended on Saturday, October 5, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1996 American League Championship Series The 1996 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 1996 American League playoffs, matched the Eastern Division champion New York Yankees against the Wild Card team, the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees had the home field advantage; the advantage was predetermined, and assigned to the Central Division champion or their opponent in the previous round unless that opponent was the wild card team and was victorious (the wild card team was then prohibited from having home field advantage in any round of the AL playoffs).
1996 Asian Winter Games The 3rd Asian Winter Games were held from February 4 to 11, 1996 in Harbin, China.World of Chinese Stamps and Philatelic Items North Korea was originally scheduled to host the games, but was not able to honour its commitment.
1996 Atlantic hurricane season The 1996 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1996, and lasted until November 30, 1996. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1996 Australian Grand Prix The 1996 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on March 10, 1996 at Melbourne. It was the first time this race was held in Melbourne, taking over from Adelaide as the host of the Australian Grand Prix.
1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Vejle, Denmark from March 30 to April 7. The 31st edition of the bi-annual competition, in which 304 fighters from 35 countries participated this time, was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.
1996 Green Bay Packers season The 1996 Green Bay Packers season resulted in the Packers a league-best win-loss record at 13-3. In addition, the Packers had the highest-scoring offense in the NFL while allowing the fewest points, the first team to do so since the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
1996 Manchester bombing The 1996 Manchester bombing was a terrorist attack in Manchester, England by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). The attack targeted the infrastructure and economy of Manchester and caused massive damage to buildings in the city centre.
1996 Masters Snooker The 1996 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 4 and February 11, 1996 at the Wembley Conference Centre. Stephen Hendry wins his sixth Masters title beating the defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-5 in the final and the first (and only title) with the new gold cup after Hendry kept the previous one he won with the other five titles.
1996 Memorial Cup The 1996 Memorial Cup occurred May 11-19 at the Peterborough Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ontario. Participating teams were the host Peterborough Petes, who were also the champions of the Ontario Hockey League, as well as the OHL runner-up Guelph Storm, and the winners of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League, which were the Granby Prédateurs and the Brandon Wheat Kings.
1996 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The 18th edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday December 7th until Sunday December 15th 1996 in the newly build Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Madras, India. Participating nations in this post-Olympic tournament were: Australia, titleholders Germany, hosting nation India, The Netherlands, Pakistan, and Spain.
1996 MLS Inaugural Allocations The Major League Soccer Inaugural Allocations were signed by the league and distributed to the league's ten teams prior to the beginning of the 1996 season, the MLS's first. Each team was allocated four "marquee" players prior to the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft.
1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft The MLS Inaugural Player Draft was held before Major League Soccer's initial season, to distribute players who had already graduated college to the league's ten inaugural teams. The draft occurred after each team was allocated four "marquee" players.
1996 National League Division Series The 1996 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1996 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 1, and ended on Saturday, October 5, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1996 NBA Finals The 1996 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1995-96 NBA season of the National Basketball Association. The Seattle SuperSonics (64-18) of the Western Conference took on the Chicago Bulls (72-10) of the Eastern Conference, with the Bulls holding home court advantage.
1996 NBA Playoffs The 1996 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1995-1996 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls winning their first NBA championship in three years by defeating the Western Conference champion Seattle Supersonics four games to two.
1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 1, 1996, and ended with the championship game on April 1 at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
1996 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament The 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 12 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 22, 1996, and ended with the championship game on March 30.
1996 New Hampshire Learjet crash The 1996 New Hampshire Learjet crash refers to the crash of a Learjet 35A registration N388LS operated by Aircraft Charter Group Inc., on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1996, near Dorchester, New Hampshire which led to the longest missing aircraft search in that state's history, lasting almost three years.
1996 NFL Draft The 1996 NFL Draft was one of the best draft classes ever for the position of Wide Receiver. Keyshawn Johnson, Terry Glenn, Eddie Kennison, Marvin Harrison, Eric Moulds, Terrell Owens, Muhsin Muhammad, Amani Toomer, and Joe Horn have all achieved success in the pros, with all except Kennison and Toomer having reached the Pro Bowl at least once, and a total of 26 Pro Bowl appearances for the group.
1996 Pacific hurricane season The 1996 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1996 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1996 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1996. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
1996 PDC World Darts Championship The 1996 Vernons World Darts Championships was the third year that the Professional Darts Corporation (then known as the World Darts Council) held their own World Championships following an acrimonious split from the British Darts Organisation during 1992/93. The tournament had its third sponsor in as many years, with Vernons taking over from Proton Cars.
1996 Republican National Convention The 1996 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States convened at the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC) in San Diego, California, from August 12 to August 15 1996. The convention nominated Bob Dole, former Senator from Kansas, for President and Jack Kemp, former Congressman from suburban Buffalo, New York and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, for Vice President.
1996 shelling of Qana The shelling of Qana took place on April 18, 1996 in Qana, a village located southeast of Tyre, in Southern Lebanon, when Israeli artillery, returning fire against Hezbollah forces in the area, hit a UN compound in the village. Around 800 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge there to escape the fighting, of whom 106 were killed and around 116 others injured.
1996 South Quay bombing The South Quay bombing (also known as the Docklands bombing) on February 9, 1996, was one of the most significant Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorist attacks during the 1990s, as it caused severe damage to a significant part of the East London Docklands financial development and brought an end to their ceasefire of the previous two years.
1996 Summer Olympic bids Six cities made the shortlist to host the 1996 Summer Olympics which were awarded to Atlanta, United States on September 18, 1990. The other cities were Athens (Greece), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia), Manchester (Great Britain) and Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Atlanta was selected in September 1990 in Tokyo, Japan, above Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto.
1996 Summer Olympics medals per capita This article compares the number of medals won by a nation in the 1996 Summer Olympics with that nation's population. Since a true "per capita" figure would result in very small values, the chart below ranks by population per medal.
1996 Super 12 season The 1996 season of the rugby union competition, the Super 12, was the inaugural season and was won by the Auckland Blues. It was a notable season because it was the first of professional rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere (the Northern Hemisphere had their first season a few months earlier due to the seasonal differences).
1996 United States campaign finance controversy The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to influence domestic American politics prior to and during the Clinton administration and also involved the fund-raising practices of the administration itself.
1996 World Cup of Hockey The first World Cup of Hockey (WCH), or 1996 World Cup of Hockey, replaced the Canada Cup as one of the two premier championships for professional ice hockey (along with the Winter Olympic tournament, which professionals have competed in since 1998).
1996 World Series The 1996 World Series matched the defending champion Atlanta Braves against the New York Yankees, with the Yankees winning in six games to capture their first championship since 1978, and their 23rd overall. Game 5 was the final game to be played at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (see below).
1996-1997 in IRL The 1996-1997 Indy Racing League season was a result of the league abandoning the concept of ending each season with the Indianapolis 500. Following the races at Loudon and Las Vegas, on October 9, 1996, the Indy Racing League announced that the league would revert to a calendar-based schedule for 1998.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the African zone (CAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the North, Central American and Caribbean zone (CONCACAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the South American zone (CONMEBOL). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Oceanian zone (OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1994 Golden Raspberry Awards The 15th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 26, 1995 at the El Rey Hotel in Los Angeles, California to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1994. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1994 Governor General's Awards Each winner of the 1994 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges set up by the Canada Council for the Arts.
1994 Group The 1994 Group is a coalition of 'smaller research-intensive universities' founded to defend their interests after the larger research-intensive universities founded the Russell Group. They describe themselves as "internationally recognised universities in Britain, who share common aims, standards and values.
1994 in NASCAR The 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Season began on Sunday February 20 and ended on Sunday November 13. Dale Earnhardt of Richard Childress Racing was crowned champion at season's end, winning consecutive Winston Cups for the third time in his career and tying Richard Petty for the record of most top-level NASCAR championships with seven.
1994 Kangaroo Tour The 1994 Kangaroo Tour was the last played in the conventional format, where the Australian side plays a number of matches against British provincial outfits, in additions to the Test matches. The outbreak of the Super League war meant that the next Kangaroo Tour, set for 1998, never eventuated; although a shortened Tour was staged in 2001.
1994 Memorial Cup The 1994 Memorial Cup occurred May 14-May 22 at the Colisée de Laval in Laval, Quebec. Participating teams were the host Laval Titan from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, as well as the winners of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Chicoutimi Saguenéens, North Bay Centennials and Kamloops Blazers.
1994 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The sixteenth edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Thursday March 17 until Friday March 25 1994 in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. Participating nations were: titleholders Australia, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, hosting nation Pakistan, and Spain.
1994 NBA Playoffs The 1994 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1993-1994 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets defeating the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks four games to three in the NBA Finals.
1994 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season saw yet another controversial finish as both Nebraska and Penn State finished undefeated, and yet Penn State finished a distant second in the final AP and UPI polls. The controversial finish, however, could have gotten even worse before disaster was averted late in the season.
1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 2, 1994, and ended with the championship game on April 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1994 NFL season The 1994 NFL season was the 75th regular season of the National Football League. To honor the NFL's 75th season, a special anniversary logo was designed and each player wore a patch on their jerseys with this logo throughout the season.
1994 Pacific hurricane season The 1994 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1994 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1994 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1994. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
1994 Paez river earthquake The Paez river disaster was caused by a rather superficial earthquake (with a 10 km deep epicentre, 6.4 on the Richter scale) and subsequent mudslide that destroyed the small town of Paez, located on the foothills of the Central Cordillera of the Andes in Cauca province in South-western Colombia, which took place on the 6th of June of 1994.
1994 PDC World Darts Championship The 1994 Skol World Darts Championships was held following 18 months of controversy within the sport of darts. After the 1993 Embassy World Championships, several players decided it was time to part company with the British Darts Organisation (who had always organised the World Championship) and form their own organisation.
1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution The 1994 reform to the Argentine Constitution was approved on 22 August, as a result of the Olivos Pact between by that time president of Argentina Carlos SaĂşl Menem, and the former president and leader of the opposition RaĂşl AlfonsĂn.
1994 South American Games The V South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1994 in Valencia, Venezuela, with some events in Puerto Cabello and Caracas. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR).
1994 Stanley Cup Finals The National Hockey League’s 1994 Stanley Cup Finals saw the Eastern Conference Champion New York Rangers defeat the Western Conference Champion Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 3 in the best-of-seven game series. The series took place between May 31 and June 14, 1994.
1994 Stanley Cup riot The 1994 Stanley Cup Riot occurred in Downtown Vancouver on the evening of June 14, 1994 and continued into the following morning. The riot arose from the result of Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals in which the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers.
1994 Tour de France The 1994 Tour de France was the 81st Tour de France and included two stages in England (twenty years after the tour first visited), Stage 4, Dover to Brighton and Stage 5, around Portsmouth. It took place July 2 to July 24, 1994.
1994 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship The UEFA U-21 Championship 1994, which spanned two years (1992-94), had 32 entrants. After the quarter-finals stage, France were chosen as the first hosts of the final stages, comprising of four matches in total.
1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, USA; Ă–stersund/Ă…re, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria.
1994 World Series The 1994 World Series was cancelled on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which had begun on August 12. It was only the second time in the event's history (and the first time since 1904) that the Fall Classic was not played.
1994-1995 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup The 1994-1995 cross-country skiing World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for cross-country skiers. The World Cup was organised by the International Ski Federation who also run world cups and championships in ski jumping, snowboarding and alpine skiing amongst others.
1994-95 NBA season The 1994-95 NBA season was the 49th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Houston Rockets defeating the Orlando Magic 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals to win the franchise's 2nd championship.
1994-95 United States network television schedule This was the broadcast television schedule on all four United States commercial television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1994. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
1994-95 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all four commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1994 and ending in the spring of 1995. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1995 American League Division Series The 1995 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1995 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Sunday, October 8, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. As a result of both leagues realigning into three divisions in 1994, it marked the first time in major league history that a team could qualify for postseason play without finishing in first place in its league or division.
1995 American League Championship Series The 1995 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 1995 American League playoffs, matched the Central Division champion Cleveland Indians against the Western Division champion Seattle Mariners. The Mariners had the home field advantage, which was predetermined and assigned to either the Western Division champion or their opponent in the previous round.
1995 An-70 air disaster On February 10, 1995, at 16:09 CET, the first prototype of the Ukrainian Antonov An-70 transport aircraft crashed during a test flight in Kyiv Oblast. The plane belonging to Antonov company collided with an escorting An-72 plane and fell into a forested area.
1995 Atlantic hurricane season The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1995, and lasted until November 30, 1995. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship The FIFA U-17 World Championship 1995 was held in the cities of Guayaquil, Portoviejo, Quito, Ibarra, Cuenca, and Riobamba in Ecuador between 3 August and 20 August 1995. Players born after 1 August 1978 could participate in this tournament.
1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships took place March 9-19, 1995 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. This marked the second time the championships were held outside of Europe (The first was in Lake Placid, New York, USA in 1950.
1995 Golden Raspberry Awards The 16th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 24, 1996 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1995. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1995 Governor General's Awards The 1995 Governor General's Literary Awards were presented by Roméo LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada on November 14 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000 and a copy of their books specially bound by master bookbinder Pierre Ouvard.
1995 in Indy Lights The 1995 PPG/Firestone Indy Lights Championship consisted of 12 races. Canadian Greg Moore completely dominated the season, winning 10 times and winning the championship by over 100 points over his closest rival.
1995 King Fahd Cup The 1995 King Fahd Cup tournament was the second and last tournament held under the King Fahd Cup name before the competition was taken over by FIFA and renamed the FIFA Confederations Cup. It was hosted by Saudi Arabia in January of 1995.
1995 Masters Snooker The 1995 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 5 and February 12, 1995 at the Wembley Conference Centre. Wild card players for 1995 were future World and Masters Champions, John Higgins who had won the Grand Prix 4 months previously and Mark Williams, both 19 years old.
1995 Memorial Cup The 1995 Memorial Cup occurred May 13-May 21 at the Riverside Coliseum in Kamloops, British Columbia. Participating teams were the host Kamloops Blazers, who were also the champions of the Western Hockey League, as well as the WHL runner-up Brandon Wheat Kings, and the winners of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League, which were the Hull Olympiques and the Detroit Jr.
1995 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The seventeenth edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday September 23 until Sunday October 1 1995 in the Olympia Stadium in Berlin, Germany. Participating nations were: Australia, England, hosting nation Germany, India, The Netherlands, and titleholders Pakistan.
1995 National League Division Series The 1995 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1995 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Saturday, October 7, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. As a result of both leagues realigning into three divisions in 1994, it marked the first time in major league history that a team could qualify for postseason play without finishing in first place in its league or division.
1995 National League Championship Series The 1995 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of baseball's 1995 National League playoffs, matched the Eastern Division champion Atlanta Braves against the Central Division champion Cincinnati Reds. The Reds had the home field advantage.
1995 NATO bombing in Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1995 NATO bombing in Bosnia and Herzegovina (code-named by NATO Operation Deliberate Force) was a sustained air campaign conducted by the North-Atlantic military organization to undermine the military capability of the Bosnian Serb Army who threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia. The operation was carried out between 30 August and 20 September 1995, involving 400 aircraft and 5000 personnel from 15 nations.
1995 NBA Playoffs The 1995 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1994-1995 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets winning their second consecutive NBA championship by defeating the Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic four games to none in the NBA Finals.
1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 1, 1995, and ended with the championship game on April 3 at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington.
1995 Pacific hurricane season The 1995 Pacific hurricane season was the least active Pacific hurricane season since 1979. Of the eleven tropical cyclones that formed during the season, four affected land, with the most notable storm of the season being Hurricane Ismael, which killed at least 116Â people in Mexico.
1995 Pakistani coup d'Ă©tat attempt The Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 was a secretive plot hatched by renegade military officers and Islamist groups against the government of Benazir Bhutto, the then-Prime Minister of Pakistan. The plotters aimed to overthrow the constitutional government and establish an Islamic State or caliphate in Pakistan.
1995 Palo Verde derailment The 1995 Palo Verde derailment happened on October 9, 1995, when an Amtrak Sunset Limited train derailed near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve train cars derailed, four of them falling 30 feet off a bridge into a dry river bed.
1995 PBA season The 1995 PBA season was the twenty-first season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The Sunkist Orange Juicers team won the first two conferences as it came close to winning the league's fifth Grand Slam only to be denied by a playoff loss to the Shell Velocity team in the Governor's Cup.
1995 PDC World Darts Championship The 1995 Proton Cars World Darts Championships was the second year that the Professional Darts Corporation (then known as the World Darts Council, WDC) held their own World Championships following an acrimonious split from the British Darts Organisation during 1992/93. Proton Cars took over the sponsorship from Skol, who had sponsored the inaugural event in 1994.
1995 Rugby League Emerging Nations Tournament The 1995 Rugby League Emerging Nations Tournament was held alongside the Centenary Rugby League World Cup. Although the competition received little build-up or promotion, the novelty value of the teams taking part encourage relatively large crowds, and the competition was a success.
1995 Rugby League World Cup The eleventh Rugby League World Cup was badged the Centenary World Cup, reflecting the fact that 1995 marked the 100th birthday of the sport. The competition was envisaged as a celebration of rugby league, and the size of the competition was doubled with five additional teams qualifying for the tournament.
1995 Sudamericano Femenino The 1991 Sudamericano Femenino was held in Uberlândia, Brazil between January 1 & 22. It was the second staging of the Sudamericano Femenino and determined the CONMEBOL's single qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1995 — the winner Brazil.
1995 UEFA Champions League Final The 1995 UEFA Champions League Final was the 40th edition and took place in Vienna between AFC Ajax and AC Milan. It was Milan's fifth European Cup final in seven years and they were aiming to emulate Real Madrid's record of the European Cup six times.
1995 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier The third Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifier for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from Wednesday November 15 to Saturday November 26, 1995. Eight nations took part, and they played a round robin.
1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin, Germany from May 4 to May 15. The eighth edition of this competition, held a year before the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
1995 World Matchplay Darts The 1995 Websters World Matchplay was the second annual World Matchplay darts tournament organised by the World Darts Council (WDC, which became the Professional Darts Corporation in 1997). The Winter Gardens, Blackpool played host to the event for the second year running.
1995 World Series The 1995 World Series matched the Atlanta Braves against the Cleveland Indians, with the Braves winning in six games to capture its third World Championship in franchise history (along with 1914 in Boston and 1957 in Milwaukee), and their first championship since moving to Atlanta in 1966. The Series was also Cleveland's first Series appearance in 41 years and marked the resumption of the Fall Classic after the previous year's Series was cancelled due to a players' strike.
1995-96 Cuban National Series The regular season of the 35th Cuban National Series was dominated by Villa Clara, seeking to match Industriales' record from the early 1960s. However, the Leones were able to defend their record by upending the Naranjas in the final.
1995-96 Heineken Cup The 1995-96 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) was the first of the series. Competing teams, from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales and for the only time so far Romania (teams from England and Scotland were not permitted to enter the competition by the RFU and SRU respectively), were divided into four pools of three, in which teams played each other only once, meaning one home and one away games per team.
1995-96 NBA season The 1995-96 NBA season was the 50th season of the National Basketball Association, although the league didn't celebrate this anniversary until the following season. The season ended with the Chicago Bulls defeating the Seattle SuperSonics 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals to win the franchise's 4th championship.
1995-96 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all four commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1995 and ending in the spring of 1996. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1996 American League Division Series The 1996 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1996 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 1, and ended on Saturday, October 5, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1996 American League Championship Series The 1996 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 1996 American League playoffs, matched the Eastern Division champion New York Yankees against the Wild Card team, the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees had the home field advantage; the advantage was predetermined, and assigned to the Central Division champion or their opponent in the previous round unless that opponent was the wild card team and was victorious (the wild card team was then prohibited from having home field advantage in any round of the AL playoffs).
1996 Asian Winter Games The 3rd Asian Winter Games were held from February 4 to 11, 1996 in Harbin, China.World of Chinese Stamps and Philatelic Items North Korea was originally scheduled to host the games, but was not able to honour its commitment.
1996 Atlantic hurricane season The 1996 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1996, and lasted until November 30, 1996. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1996 Australian Grand Prix The 1996 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on March 10, 1996 at Melbourne. It was the first time this race was held in Melbourne, taking over from Adelaide as the host of the Australian Grand Prix.
1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Vejle, Denmark from March 30 to April 7. The 31st edition of the bi-annual competition, in which 304 fighters from 35 countries participated this time, was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.
1996 Green Bay Packers season The 1996 Green Bay Packers season resulted in the Packers a league-best win-loss record at 13-3. In addition, the Packers had the highest-scoring offense in the NFL while allowing the fewest points, the first team to do so since the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
1996 Manchester bombing The 1996 Manchester bombing was a terrorist attack in Manchester, England by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). The attack targeted the infrastructure and economy of Manchester and caused massive damage to buildings in the city centre.
1996 Masters Snooker The 1996 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 4 and February 11, 1996 at the Wembley Conference Centre. Stephen Hendry wins his sixth Masters title beating the defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-5 in the final and the first (and only title) with the new gold cup after Hendry kept the previous one he won with the other five titles.
1996 Memorial Cup The 1996 Memorial Cup occurred May 11-19 at the Peterborough Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ontario. Participating teams were the host Peterborough Petes, who were also the champions of the Ontario Hockey League, as well as the OHL runner-up Guelph Storm, and the winners of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League, which were the Granby Prédateurs and the Brandon Wheat Kings.
1996 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The 18th edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday December 7th until Sunday December 15th 1996 in the newly build Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Madras, India. Participating nations in this post-Olympic tournament were: Australia, titleholders Germany, hosting nation India, The Netherlands, Pakistan, and Spain.
1996 MLS Inaugural Allocations The Major League Soccer Inaugural Allocations were signed by the league and distributed to the league's ten teams prior to the beginning of the 1996 season, the MLS's first. Each team was allocated four "marquee" players prior to the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft.
1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft The MLS Inaugural Player Draft was held before Major League Soccer's initial season, to distribute players who had already graduated college to the league's ten inaugural teams. The draft occurred after each team was allocated four "marquee" players.
1996 National League Division Series The 1996 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1996 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 1, and ended on Saturday, October 5, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1996 NBA Finals The 1996 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1995-96 NBA season of the National Basketball Association. The Seattle SuperSonics (64-18) of the Western Conference took on the Chicago Bulls (72-10) of the Eastern Conference, with the Bulls holding home court advantage.
1996 NBA Playoffs The 1996 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1995-1996 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls winning their first NBA championship in three years by defeating the Western Conference champion Seattle Supersonics four games to two.
1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 1, 1996, and ended with the championship game on April 1 at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
1996 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament The 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 12 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 22, 1996, and ended with the championship game on March 30.
1996 New Hampshire Learjet crash The 1996 New Hampshire Learjet crash refers to the crash of a Learjet 35A registration N388LS operated by Aircraft Charter Group Inc., on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1996, near Dorchester, New Hampshire which led to the longest missing aircraft search in that state's history, lasting almost three years.
1996 NFL Draft The 1996 NFL Draft was one of the best draft classes ever for the position of Wide Receiver. Keyshawn Johnson, Terry Glenn, Eddie Kennison, Marvin Harrison, Eric Moulds, Terrell Owens, Muhsin Muhammad, Amani Toomer, and Joe Horn have all achieved success in the pros, with all except Kennison and Toomer having reached the Pro Bowl at least once, and a total of 26 Pro Bowl appearances for the group.
1996 Pacific hurricane season The 1996 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1996 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1996 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1996. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
1996 PDC World Darts Championship The 1996 Vernons World Darts Championships was the third year that the Professional Darts Corporation (then known as the World Darts Council) held their own World Championships following an acrimonious split from the British Darts Organisation during 1992/93. The tournament had its third sponsor in as many years, with Vernons taking over from Proton Cars.
1996 Republican National Convention The 1996 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States convened at the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC) in San Diego, California, from August 12 to August 15 1996. The convention nominated Bob Dole, former Senator from Kansas, for President and Jack Kemp, former Congressman from suburban Buffalo, New York and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, for Vice President.
1996 shelling of Qana The shelling of Qana took place on April 18, 1996 in Qana, a village located southeast of Tyre, in Southern Lebanon, when Israeli artillery, returning fire against Hezbollah forces in the area, hit a UN compound in the village. Around 800 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge there to escape the fighting, of whom 106 were killed and around 116 others injured.
1996 South Quay bombing The South Quay bombing (also known as the Docklands bombing) on February 9, 1996, was one of the most significant Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorist attacks during the 1990s, as it caused severe damage to a significant part of the East London Docklands financial development and brought an end to their ceasefire of the previous two years.
1996 Summer Olympic bids Six cities made the shortlist to host the 1996 Summer Olympics which were awarded to Atlanta, United States on September 18, 1990. The other cities were Athens (Greece), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia), Manchester (Great Britain) and Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Atlanta was selected in September 1990 in Tokyo, Japan, above Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto.
1996 Summer Olympics medals per capita This article compares the number of medals won by a nation in the 1996 Summer Olympics with that nation's population. Since a true "per capita" figure would result in very small values, the chart below ranks by population per medal.
1996 Super 12 season The 1996 season of the rugby union competition, the Super 12, was the inaugural season and was won by the Auckland Blues. It was a notable season because it was the first of professional rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere (the Northern Hemisphere had their first season a few months earlier due to the seasonal differences).
1996 United States campaign finance controversy The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to influence domestic American politics prior to and during the Clinton administration and also involved the fund-raising practices of the administration itself.
1996 World Cup of Hockey The first World Cup of Hockey (WCH), or 1996 World Cup of Hockey, replaced the Canada Cup as one of the two premier championships for professional ice hockey (along with the Winter Olympic tournament, which professionals have competed in since 1998).
1996 World Series The 1996 World Series matched the defending champion Atlanta Braves against the New York Yankees, with the Yankees winning in six games to capture their first championship since 1978, and their 23rd overall. Game 5 was the final game to be played at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (see below).
1996-1997 in IRL The 1996-1997 Indy Racing League season was a result of the league abandoning the concept of ending each season with the Indianapolis 500. Following the races at Loudon and Las Vegas, on October 9, 1996, the Indy Racing League announced that the league would revert to a calendar-based schedule for 1998.
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