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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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