TV actress Rachel G. Fox

Events in 1996 and 23-7

Events in US in the birth year of Rachel G. Fox

• 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 Rachel G. Fox (23-7) in history

• Day 23-7 year 1829: William Burt patented a forerunner of the typewriter.
• Day 23-7 year 1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died at Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.
• Day 23-7 year 1914: Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.
• Day 23-7 year 1945: Vichy government leader Marshal Henri Petain went on trial for treason.
• Day 23-7 year 1952: Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup. The following year the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the pharaohs, Egypt was again ruled by Egyptians.
• Day 23-7 year 1995: The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
• Day 23-7 year 1997: Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.