5th » Dolly (sheep) called Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
15th » A Belgian Air Component or Belgian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules called C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
17th » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island or Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
17th » The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded.
27th » Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta or Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. One hu
28th » The remains of a Prehistory e.g prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
29th » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a United States federal courts named U.S. federal court as too broad.