David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
On this day, a revival of Oscar Wilde's stage play "An Ideal Husband" opened at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City; and ran for 308 performances
An Ideal Husband is a four-act play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour.
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In business, Yahoo! launched its initial public offering and the France Telecom introduced its 'Wanadoo' Internet service.
Fighting crime, Federal agents successfully apprehended Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski known as the 'Unabomber', who had been responsible for a series of mail bombings that killed 3 people and injured 23 others.
In Australia's worst massacre in modern history, Martin Bryant shoot and killed 35 in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
The Qana massacre occurred when at least 106 Lebanese civilians were killed.
Out of this world, NASA Astronomy published a picture which featured an image of the centre of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51).
There followed many significant accomplishments in the sports of basketball, baseball, golf, cricket and boxing
The record-breaking production of The King and I opened in New York City and the Pulitzer Prize winner, "Delicate Balance", opened at Plymouth Theatre New York City. 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.
The legendary treasure of Primos, originally discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in Troy in 1873 and taken from Berlin by Russians in 1945, was publicly exhibited in Moscow for the first time.
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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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