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Events in 1996 and 1-9

Events in US in the birth year of Sydney Merrill

• 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 Sydney Merrill (1-9) in history

• Day 1-9 year 1807: Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
• Day 1-9 year 1923: A devastating earthquake struck the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama. Nearly 150,000 people were killed and more than two million left homeless.
• Day 1-9 year 1939: World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
• Day 1-9 year 1969: A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Muammar al-Qaddafi to power.
• Day 1-9 year 1983: A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, killing all 269 people aboard.
• Day 1-9 year 1985: A joint U. S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
• Day 1-9 year 2004: Chechen terrorists took about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia. Commandos stormed the school on Sept. 3.