Editing 1996 (section)

===August===
[[File:ALH84001 structures.jpg|thumb|The electron microscope reveals chain structures in meteorite fragment [[ALH84001]].]]
* August
** The first three-parent baby is conceived in New Jersey through [[mitochondrial donation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/magazine/the-brave-new-world-of-three-parent-ivf.html|title=The Brave New World of Three-Parent I.V.F.|first=Kim|last=Tingley|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 27, 2014|access-date=March 1, 2017|archive-date=May 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520131825/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/magazine/the-brave-new-world-of-three-parent-ivf.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** The [[invasive species]] [[Asian long-horned beetle]] is found in New York City.
* [[August 1]]
** [[Sarah Balabagan]] returns to the [[Philippines]].
** A pro-democracy demonstration supporting [[Megawati Sukarnoputri]] in [[Indonesia]] is broken up by riot police.
* [[August 4]] &ndash; The [[1996 Summer Olympics]] conclude.
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[NASA]] announces that the [[Allan Hills 84001]] meteorite, thought to originate from [[Mars]], may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms; further tests are inconclusive.
* [[August 7]] &ndash; Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near [[Huesca]], Spain.<ref>{{cite book|title=Official Journal of the European Communities: Debates of the European Parliament|publisher=Office for Official Publications of the European Communities|year=1996|pages=278–279}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Boris Yeltsin]] is sworn in at the [[Kremlin]] for a second term as [[President of Russia]].
* [[August 13]] &ndash; Data sent back by the [[Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]] [[space probe]] indicates there may be [[water]] on one of [[Jupiter]]'s moons.
* [[August 14]] &ndash; A rocket ignited during a [[fireworks]] display in [[Arequipa]], [[Peru]] knocks down a high-tension power cable into a dense crowd, electrocuting 35 people.
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Bob Dole]] is nominated for [[President of the United States]], and [[Jack Kemp]] for vice president, at the [[Republican National Convention]] in [[San Diego]], [[California]].
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Brookfield Zoo]], [[Chicago]]. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the {{convert|20|ft|m|adj=on}} deep gorilla enclosure, [[Binti Jua]], a female lowland [[gorilla]] sits with the injured boy until his rescue.
* [[August 21]]
** Former State President of South Africa, [[F. W. de Klerk]], makes an official apology for crimes committed under [[Apartheid]] to the [[Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)|Truth and Reconciliation Commission]] in [[Cape Town]].
** In the UK, Queen [[Elizabeth II]] issues [[letters patent]] on divorced former wives of British princes, taking away from the ex-wives the attribute and style of [[Royal Highness]]. With that [[Sarah, Duchess of York]] as well as [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] legally cease to be Royals, but they remain as non-royal Duchess and Princess.
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Osama bin Laden]] writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[David Dellinger]], [[Bradford Lyttle]], and nine others are arrested by the [[Federal Protective Service (United States)|Federal Protective Service]] while protesting in a demonstration at the [[Kluczynski Federal Building]] in downtown Chicago during [[1996 Democratic National Convention|that year's Democratic National Convention]].<ref>
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* [[August 28]] &ndash; Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the [[High Court of Justice]] in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], due to the Queen's [[letters patent]] issued a week earlier.
* [[August 29]]
** U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] and Vice President [[Al Gore]] are re-nominated at the [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago]].
** A Russian [[Tupolev]] 154 jetliner [[Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801|crashes]] into a mountain as it approaches the airport at [[Spitsbergen]], Norway, killing all 141 people on board.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: Iraqi forces launch an offensive into the northern [[Iraqi no-fly zones|No-Fly Zone]] and capture Arbil.