What Happened in Apr 1996

Kentucky Beats Syracuse in Final Four

The 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of... Read more

Soul Edge is Released

Soul Edge (ソウルエッジ, Sōru Ejji) is the first installment in the Soul series of fighting games developed and published by Namco. Soul Edge is the name... Read more

Operation Grapes of Wrath

Operation Grapes of Wrath is the Israeli Defense Forces code-name (Hezbollah calls it April War) for a sixteen-day military blitz against Lebanon... Read more

Nick Faldo wins the 60th Masters Tournament

Nick Faldo won his third Masters championship and sixth overall major championship by five strokes over Greg Norman. Faldo overcame a six-stroke... Read more

Oprah Airs An Episode About Mad Cow Disease

Winfrey's influence reaches far beyond pop culture and into unrelated industries where many believe she has the power to cause enormous market... Read more

"MST3K: The Movie" Released

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996, produced by Best Brains, Inc., distributed by Gramercy Pictures) is a theatrical adaptation of the... Read more

"The Calzone" - Season 7 Episode 20 of Seinfeld First Airs

"The Calzone" is the 130th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 20th episode for the 7th season. It aired on April 25, 1996. Plot... Read more

"The Sabbath Stones" Is Released

The Sabbath Stones (1996) was the last album to be released by Black Sabbath with IRS Records. The album is a compilation of Sabbath tracks... Read more