This Day in High School History
- 1996 President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
- 1996 Pavlo Lazarenko becomes Prime Minister of Ukraine
- 1996 Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan was rushed to Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles after an apparent drug overdose. The singer was later arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.
- 1996 Buddy Lazier, Vail, Colo., No. 91, Reynard-Ford wins the Indianapolis 500
