This Day in High School History
- 1996 Bill Graham the Irish journalist credited with discovering U2 died of a heart attack aged 44. He was also the co-founder of the Irish music paper Hot Press. Members from Clannad, U2, Hothouse Flowers and Gavin Friday all attended his funeral.
- 1996 Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
- 1996 The crowd whoops it up at the City-County Building in Salt Lake City on Friday night after the final relay runner ignited the Olympic caldron. Nearly 200 Utahns took part in the daylong relay, carrying the flame a few miles closer to its ultimate destination: Atlanta.
- 1996 Iomega Corp. of Roy is opening new Pacific headquarters in Singapore.
