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Events in 1996 and 5-3

Events in US in the birth year of Kent Heckel

• 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 Kent Heckel (5-3) in history

• Day 5-3 year 1770: The Boston Massacre was a pre-Revolutionary incident that arose from anger towards the British army, and five anti-British rioters were killed.
• Day 5-3 year 1933: In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.
• Day 5-3 year 1946: Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent."
• Day 5-3 year 1953: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
• Day 5-3 year 1963: Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash.
• Day 5-3 year 1997: North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.