1996

Events

 * February 5:
 * Ronald Wyden becomes a Senator of Oregon
 * December 1:
 * Shelley Capito becomes a Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
 * December 2:
 * Adam Schiff becomes Member of the California State Senate

Deaths

 * April 27:
 * William Egan Colby - Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1920)
 * September 17:
 * Spiro Theodore Agnew - Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)