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Year in a Minute: 1996

PORT ARTHUR MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY

A wreath at Port Arthur, Tasmania. (AAP Image/Pool, Luke Bowden) Credit: PR Handout Image

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1996.


Weeks after 15 children are shot dead in Dunblane Scotland,

Martin Bryant murders 35 people and injures 23 others at Port Arthur in Tasmania.

Police say he fired deliberately, targeting his victims, including several children with his high-powered rifle

New Prime Minister John Howard announces nationwide gun law reforms.

Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald passes away,

18 S-A-S troops die when two Blackhawk Helicopters collide.

The Taliban seize Kabul.

Charles and Diana divorce.

Chess computer ‘Deep Blue’ defeats world champion Garry Kasparov.

And scientists in Scotland clone Dolly the sheep.


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