David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
Faced with rising fuel prices, US President Bill Clinton authorised the sale of $227 million worth of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The Dutch-Italian Beppo-SAX launched from Cape Canaveral as the first X-ray mission capable of simultaneously observing targets over more than 3 orders-of-magnitude of energy
US President Bill Clinton authorised the sale of $227 million worth of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a strategic economic and energy policy decision aimed at managing national petroleum resources. US gas prices were at their highest levels in 5 years
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The ground-breaking musical 'Rent' opens at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City, marking the beginning of a revolutionary theatrical production that would redefine modern musical theatre.
Jonathan Larson's rock musical "Rent", was loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera "La Bohème", starring Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel.
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In Australia's worst massacre in modern history, Martin Bryant shoot and killed 35 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. This led to a compulsory gun buy back program and major changes to gun control laws.
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania.
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The Israeli military operation in Lebanon, known as Operation Grapes of Wrath, concluded after 16 days of intense military engagement, marking a significant moment in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Lebanese forces.
Operation Grapes of Wrath known in Lebanon as the April Aggression was a seventeen-day campaign of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) against Hezbollah in 1996 which attempted to end the Iran-backed group's rocket attacks on northern Israeli civilian centres by forcing the group north of the Litani River, out of easy range of these civilian centres.
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Sotherby ends a 4 day auction of Jackie Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's estate takes in $34.5 million
In New York on this day, the glitzy garage sale of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's estate ended with Sotheby's cash registers totalling $34.5 million in sales. Second highest price was $1.3 million paid for the antique French desk where President Kennedy signed the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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NASA Astronomy published this picture of this day which featured an image of the centre of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and Imran Khan launched his political front
The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) featured a Hubble Space Telescope image of the centre of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), showing a dense region of young stars and a bright central region.
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