Editing 1996 (section)

===July===
* July
** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: U.N. Inspector [[Scott Ritter]] attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport but is blocked by [[Iraq]]i officials.
** The [[India]]n government officially renames the city of Madras, restoring the name [[Chennai]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/july-17-1996-madras-came-to-be-known-as-chennai|title=July 17 1996 – Madras to be known as Chennai|website=www.mapsofindia.com|date=July 17, 2013|access-date=2017-07-26|archive-date=July 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717002209/https://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/july-17-1996-madras-came-to-be-known-as-chennai|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 1]]
** The [[Northern Territory]] in Australia legalises voluntary [[euthanasia]].
** [[German orthography reform of 1996]] agreed internationally.
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Boris Yeltsin]] is [[1996 Russian presidential election|re-elected]] as [[President of Russia]] after the second round of elections.
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Dolly the sheep]], the first [[mammal]] to be successfully [[cloning|cloned]] from an adult [[cell (biology)|cell]], is born at the [[Roslin Institute]] in [[Midlothian]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom|UK]].
* [[July 11]] &ndash; Arrest warrants are issued for [[Bosnian Serb]] war criminals [[Radovan Karadžić]] and [[Ratko Mladić]] by the [[Russell Tribunal]] in [[The Hague]].
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Hurricane Bertha (1996)|Hurricane Bertha]]: made landfall in [[North Carolina]] as a Category&nbsp;2 storm, causing $270&nbsp;million in damage (${{Formatprice|{{Inflation|US|270000000|1996}}}} in present-day terms{{Inflation-fn|US}}) to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.
* [[July 16]] &ndash; An outbreak of [[Escherichia coli|E. coli]] [[food poisoning]] in Japan results in 6,000 children being ill, including two deaths, after a group of school children eat contaminated lunches.
* [[July 17]]
** The [[Community of Portuguese Language Countries]] (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) is constituted.
** Paris- and Rome-bound [[TWA Flight 800]] ([[Boeing 747]]) explodes off the coast of [[Long Island, New York]], killing all 230 people on board.
* [[July 19]]
** The [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]], United States, begin.
** [[Bosnian Serb]] President [[Radovan Karadžić]] resigns from public office in [[Republika Srpska]] after being indicted for [[war crime]]s.
* [[July 21]] &ndash; The [[Saguenay Flood]], one of Canada's most costly [[natural disaster]]s, is caused by flooding on the [[Saguenay River]] in [[Quebec]].
* [[July 22]] &ndash; The first ''Gethsemani Encounter'' takes place at the [[abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani]]. This event, hosted by the [[DIMMID]], is the first intermonastic dialogue between Buddhist and Christian monks and is attended by the [[14th Dalai Lama|Dalai Lama]] and Bishop [[Joseph John Gerry]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Borelli |first1=John |title=In Memoriam: Bishop Joseph John Gerry, O.S.B. (1928-2023) |journal=Dilatato Corde |date=2023 |volume=XIII |issue=2 July - December |url=https://dimmid.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7b7F171057-4EB9-487F-9E54-5DC835955930%7d |access-date=6 February 2024 |publisher=DIMMID}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fischer |first1=Norman |title=On Conferences: The Second Gethsemani Encounter |url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/conferences-second-gethsemani-encounter/ |website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review |publisher=Tricycle |access-date=6 February 2024 |language=en |date=Fall 2002}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] &ndash; The [[Dehiwala train bombing]] kills 56 commuters outside [[Colombo]].
* [[July 25]] &ndash; The [[Tutsi]]-led [[Burundi]]an army performs a [[1996 Burundian coup d'état|coup]] and reinstalls previous president [[Pierre Buyoya]], ousting current president [[Sylvestre Ntibantunganya]].
* [[July 27]] &ndash; The [[Centennial Olympic Park bombing]] at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in the United States kills one person and injures 111.<ref>{{cite news |title= Eric Rudolph Lays Out the Arguments that Fueled His Two-Year Bomb Attacks |first= Doug |last= Gross |agency= [[Associated Press]] |work= [[San Diego Union-Tribune]] |date= April 14, 2005 |url= http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation/20050414-0149-ericrudolph.html |access-date= March 27, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180902211443/http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation/20050414-0149-ericrudolph.html |archive-date= September 2, 2018 |url-status= dead }}</ref>