Basketball players Tyus Jones

Events in 1996 and 10-5

Events in US in the birth year of Tyus Jones

• US budget crisis in fourth month (Jan 3).
• Clinton approves resumption of many government operations (Jan. 6).
• Bob Dole sweeps primaries (March 5).
• F.B.I. arrests suspected Unabomber (April 3).
• Clinton signs line-item veto bill (April 9).
• President blocks ban on late-term abortions (April 10).
• Valujet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed (May 11).
• 747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island, N.Y.; all 230 aboard perish (July 17).
• Congress passes welfare reform bill (Aug. 2); approved by Clinton Aug. 22.
• Republican convention nominates Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (Aug. 14); Democratic convention nominates incumbents Clinton and Gore, who win the national election (Nov. 5).
• Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female US secretary of state (Dec. 5).

Birthday Tyus Jones (10-5) in history

• Day 10-5 year 1775: Farmer Ethan Allen and his "Green Mountain Boys" organization captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
• Day 10-5 year 1863: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.
• Day 10-5 year 1869: The United States’ first transcontinental railroad was completed with a ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah.
• Day 10-5 year 1924: J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.
• Day 10-5 year 1940: Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.
• Day 10-5 year 1994: Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president.