Unix Timestamp: 840758400
Friday, August 23. 1996, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Iraqi expatriates seeking refuge hijack a Sudanese airliner en route from Khartoum to Amman.

Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law.

Chun Doo-hwan is sentenced to death, after being found guilty of mutiny and treason.

Osama bin Laden writes The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places, a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.