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| North America:The forty second Democratic national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Bill Clinton.
The thirty sixth Republican national convention meets in San Diego to nominate Bob Dole. |
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January 1996
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March 1996
In March 1997 the giant McFrugals distribution warehouse in the Almonester-Michoud Industrial District is reduced to a tangle of rusted iron in a fire that causes damage valued at $200 million. The crown jewel of Sidney Barthelemy÷s administration will not reopen. |
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October 1996 | In October elections John F. Schwegmann loses his seat on the Public Service Commission and in November he agrees to sell Schwegmann Brothers Giant Super Markets to Kihlberg and Co.
November 1996
In November Mary Landrieu is elected to fill the seat of retiring J. Bennett Johnston in the U. S. Senate. Republican Woody Jenkins contests the close race. Harry Connick wins a fifth term as District Attorney with strong backing from Mayor Marc Morial. |
December 1996
On December 14 eleven days before Christmas a 69,000-ton corn filled freighter crashes into the Riverwalk Mall and the Hilton Hotel injuring 100 shoppers. |
| The New Orleans Police Department is in the news often as two are killed while on duty within two days in July and another is sentenced to death for ordering the murder of a woman who had filed a brutality complaint against him in 1994 , | The Orleans Levee Board goes through two presidents, Robert Harvey and Mike Fosters choice to succeed him, William Nungesser. At the end of the year the board is still in hot water for its financial practices. | The ³Crescent City Connection² is finished after 15 years and $480 million connecting the West Bank to the Central Business District with a second span. | The New Orleans Aviation Board initiates environmental impact assessment of its plans to build a second north-south runway in St. Charles Parish. A 71,500 square foot cargo building is completed. The crime rate in New Orleans is the biggest story of 1996 as the murder rate is nearly one per day. Police Superintendent Richard Penington anounces one police rate and City Council is ready to approve another next year. |
Five years after the legislature approved river boat gambling, video poker and the land casino, the voters get to give their approva. Orleans Parish votes to keep it all, but most of the boats are moving to the prosperous Shreveport/Bossier City area and the land casino, only partially finished has run into bankrupcy problems. |
1st Congressional District: Bob Livingston (R) wins unopposed; 2nd Congressional District: William Jefferson (D)wins unopposed; 3rd Congressional District: Billy Tauzin (R) wins unopposed; 4th Congressional District: Jim McCrery (R) 71% over Paul Chachere 29%; 5th Congressional District: John Cooksey (R) 58% over Francis Thompson 42%; 6th Congressional District: Richard Baker (R) 69% over Steve Myers (D) 31%; 7th Congressional District: Chris John (D) 69% over Hunter Lundy 47%; 8th Congressional District: Louisiana lost one House seat after the 1990 Census. Rick Venturi becomes the eleventh Saints coach. He finishes the season when Jim Mora leaves abruptly after eight games. His term ends a 1-7-0 record. Louisianian Olympians in Atlanta: Shaquille O'Neal,gold, basketball; Venus Lacy, gold, basketball. Louisiana State celebrates a 10-2 football season. |
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