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  • Major Events of 1996

     

    Sports

    Olympics

    NBA: Chicago Bulls vs. Seattle Supersonics Series: 4-2
    NCAA Football: Florida Record: 12-1-0
    Heisman Trophy: Danny Wuerffel, florida, QB points: 1,3
    Stanley Cup: Colorado Avalanche vs. Florida Panthers Series: 4-0
    Super Bowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Score: 27-17
    US Open Golf: Steve Jones Score: 278 Course: Oakland Hills CC Location: Bloomfield Hills, MI
    World Series: New York Yankees vs. Atlanta Braves Series: 4-2

    Music & the Grammy's

    Best Record: "Change the World" ... Eric Clapton
    Best Song: "Change the World" ... Gordon Kennedy
    Best Album: "Falling Into You" ... Celine Dion
    Male Vocalist: Eric Clapton ... "Change the World"
    Female Vocalist: Toni Braxton ... "Un-break My Heart"

    1."Because You Loved Me" ... Celine Dion
    2."Always Be My Baby" ... Mariah Carey
    3."The Crossroads" ... Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
    4."How Do U Want It/California Love" ... 2Pac w/KC & JoJo & w/Dr.Dre & Roger Troutman
    5."You're Makin' Me High/Let it Flow" ... Toni Braxton
    6."Macarena" .... Los Del Rio
    7."No Diggity" .... BLACK Street w/Dr.Dre
    8."Un-Break My Heart" ... Toni Braxton

    Movies & Academy Awards

    Best Picture: "The English Patient"
    Best Director: Anthony Minghella ... "The English Patient"
    Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush ... "Shine"
    Best Actress: Frances McDormand ... "Fargo"

    1. Independence Day
    2. Twister
    3. Mission: Impossible
    4. The Rock
    5. Ransom
    6. The Nutty Professor
    7. The Birdcage
    8. 101 Dalmatians
    9. A Time to Kill
    10. First Wives Club

    Most Popular Books

    Fiction
    1."The Celestine Prophecy" ... James Redfield
    2."Primary Colors" ... Anonymous
    3."The Horse Whisper" ... Nicholas Evans
    4."The Tenth Insight" ... James Redfield
    5."The Runaway Jury" ... John Grisham
    6."How Stella Got Her Groove Back" ... Terry McMillian
    7."Executive Orders" ... Tom Clancy
    8."Absolute Power" ... David Balducci
    9."Moonlight Becomes You" ... Mary Higgens Clark
    10."Gods and Generals" ... Jeff Sharra
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    Nonfiction
    1."Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" ... John Gray
    2."The Zone" ... Barry Sears with Bill Lawren
    3."The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" ... Deppak Choopra
    4."Simple Abundance" ... Sarah Ban Breathnack
    5."Emotional Intelligence" ... Daniel Goleman
    6."Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" ... John Berendt
    7."Undaunted Courage" ... Stephen E. Ambrose
    8."The Dilbert Principle" ... Scott Adams
    9."Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot" ... Al Frank
    10."In Contempt" ... Christopher A. Daren with Jess Walter

    Most Popular Television Shows

    1. Seinfeld (NBC)
    2. ER (NBC)
    3. Home Improvement (ABC)
    4. Grace Under Fire (ABC)
    5. Monday Night Football (ABC)
    6. 60 Minutes (CBS)
    7. N.Y.P.D. Blue (ABC)
    8. Murder, She Wrote (CBS)
    9. Friends (NBC)
    10. Roseanne (ABC)

    Academy Awards

    Best Picture: "The English Patient"
    Best Director: Anthony Minghella ... "The English Patient"
    Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush ... "Shine"
    Best Actress: Susan Sarandon ... Frances McDormand ... "Fargo"

    Grammy Awards

    Record of the Year:"Change the World" ... Eric Clapton
    Best Song:"Change the World" ... Gordon Kennedy
    Best Album: "Falling Into You" ... Celine Dion
    Male Vocalist:Eric Clapton ... "Change the World"
    Female Vocalist: Toni Braxton ... "Un-break My Heart"'"

    Nobel Prizes

    Chemistry
    The prize was awarded jointly to: CURL, ROBERT F. JR., U.S.A., Rice University, Houston, TX, U.S.A., b. 1933; KROTO, Sir HAROLD W., Great Britain, University of Sussex, Sussex, Great Britain, b. 1939; and SMALLEY, RICHARD E., U.S.A. Rice University, Houston, TX, U.S.A., b. 1943: "for their discovery of fullerenes"

    Literature
    SZYMBORSKA, WISLAWA, Poland, Cracow, Poland, b. 1923: "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"

    Peace
    The prize was awarded jointly to: CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.

    PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
    The prize was awarded jointly to: DOHERTY, PETER C., Australia, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, U.S.A., b. 1940; and ZINKERNAGEL, ROLF M., Switzerland, University of Zurich, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, b. 1944: "for their discoveries concering the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"

    Physics
    The prize was awarded jointly to: LEE, DAVID M., U.S.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A., b. 1931; OSHEROFF, DOUGLAS D., U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., b. 1945; and RICHARDSON, ROBERT C., U.S.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A, b. 1937: "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"

    Pulitzer Prizes

    Drama: Jonathan Larson ... "Rent"
    Fiction: Richard Ford ... "Independence Day"
    History: Alan Taylor ... "William Cooper's Town"
    International Reporting: David Rohde ... "Christian Science Monitor"
    National Reporting: Alix M. Freedman ... "Wall Street Journal"
    Public Service: "Raleigh News and Observer"

     

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