 Also on this date, 1996, MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable and the internet. 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace, 50, was shot dead outside his Miami beach home. Suspected gunman Andrew Philip Cunanan was found dead eight days later, a suicide. Investigators believe Cunanan killed four other people before Versace in a cross-country rampage that began the previous March.