Movies set in 1996
26th an abridged 60 Minutes interview with Jeffrey Wigand is broadcast
26th John Eleuthère du Pont shoots and kills Dave Schultz
4th the full 60 Minutes segment with Jeffrey Wigand is broadcast
28th TLC complain at the Grammy Awards that they are broke
18th Biggie Smalls' funeral is held
27th seven Algerian monks are kidnapped
4th Hit 'Em Up is released
26th Veronica Guerin is murdered
2nd mysterious alien spaceships arrive above the earth
4th the alien invaders are defeated
4th David Egan is murdered, and his killer Ben Willis is hit by a passing car
27th Richard Jewell finds a bomb at the 1996 Olympics
30th Richard Jewell is publicly accused of planting the 1996 Olympic bomb
18th the first of the Dark Alliance series of articles is published
7th Tupac is gunned down in a drive-by shooting
7th Tupac Shakur is murdered
25th Deborah Lipstadt finds out that David Irving is suing her publisher, Penguin Books
26th Richard Jewell is exonerated
29th Biggie Smalls and Faith Evans attempt to reconcile
19th Bernie Tiede kills Marjorie Nugent
13th a deadly virus is released