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1996 (''' MCMXCVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Monday of the Gregorian Calendar , and was designated the ''International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''.
1996 was also the Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat , a year traditionally feared for Natural Disasters .
Events
January
- January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israel i-planted Booby-trap ped Cell Phone .
- January 7 - One of the worst Blizzard s in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100.
- January 8 - Zaire an cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa - 350 dead.
- January 9 - Assassination of Eric Hebborn , art forger, in Rome , Italy.
- January 14 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal .
- January 20 - Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority .
- January 22 - Andreas Papandreou , Prime Minister Of Greece resigns due to health problems. New government forms under Costas Simitis .
- January 23 - The first version of the Java Programming Language is released.
- January 24 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for Moscow .
- testifies before a grand jury.
- January 26 - US millionaire John Dupont shoots wrestler David Schultz
- January 27 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger , Mahamane Ousmane , in a military coup.
- January 28 - The Dallas Cowboys become the first team to win three Super Bowls in a span of four seasons, as they defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers , 27-17, in Super Bowl XXX .
- January 29 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French Nuclear Testing .
- January 29 - Fire destroys La Fenice , Venice 's opera house.
- January 29 - A Greek Flag is hoisted on a small Rocky island named Imia ( Greek ) / Kardac ( Turkish ), initiating the Imia-Kardak Crisis
- January 29 - Duke Nukem 3D Shareware released to public
- January 30 - Leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed, in an internal feud, while in line for his unemployment benefit.
- January 30 - February 5 - Sarah Balabagan caned in the United Arab Emirates
- January 31 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo , Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
February
- February - , Hussein Kamel , returns to Iraq. Within days of his return, he is murdered along with his brother, father, sister and her children. Kamel had forced Iraq to reveal portions of its illegal nuclear and chemical weapons programs.
- February 1 - Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress .
- February 4 - Major Snowstorm paralyzes Midwest ern United States , Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time low temperature at -26°F. (-32°C)
- February 8 - The Telecom Reform Act is signed into law by United States President Bill Clinton .
- February 9 - IRA ceasefire ends with 1 one-ton bomb in London's Canary Wharf District - 2 dead.
- February 10 - Chess Computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- February 17 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , world Chess champion Garry Kasparov beats the " Deep Blue " Supercomputer in a chess match.
- February 18 - IRA Briefcase Bomb in a London bus kills the bomber and injures 9 in London West End .
- February 27 - The first game in the giant video game series, Pokémon was released today. It has grossed several billion dollars, and has spawned a television series, movies, a card game, and more.
- February 29 - Daniel Green convicted of murder of James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan .
March
, elected 25th Prime Minister Of Australia on 2 March.]]
April
- April 2 - US Mafioso John Gotti is found guilty of murder of Paul Castellano
- April 3 - Plane carrying US commerce secretary Ron Brown crashes near Dubrovnik , Croatia
- April 3 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
- April 3 - The first EuroHowl is held in Aberystwyth , Wales .
- April 3 - A Lunar Eclipse occurred.
- April 10 - United States President Bill Clinton vetos a bill that would have banned Partial-birth Abortion .
- April 16 - The NBA's 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls , with Michael Jordan 's lead, go on to set a new NBA record for most wins in a season, achieving their 70th win and later go on to win 72 games, lose only 10 of them, defeat Shaquille O'Neal and the Orlando Magic in the NBA Eastern Confrence Finals, and of course, win their fourth NBA Championship in six years.
- April 18 - Over 100 Lebanese civilians were killed after Israel shelled the UN compound in Qana . ''See Qana Massacre ''.
- April 28 - Martin Bryant kills 35 people as part of the Port Arthur Massacre , at the Port Arthur tourist site, Tasmania , Australia .
- April 29 - Official opening of Rent (musical) on Broadway .
May
June
July
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- July - i officials.
- July - Prague Manifesto - declared principles of the Esperanto movement.
- July 1 - The Northern Territory in Australia legalises voluntary Euthanasia .
- July 5 - Dolly The Sheep , the first Mammal to be successfully Cloned from an adult Cell , is born. She would prematurely die in February 2003.
- July 8 - Martina Hingis youngest person in History (age 15 years and 282 days) to win at Wimbledon ( Ladies Doubles event).
- could abrogate the Oslo Accords , and pursue a permanent annexation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip , among other policies. The paper had been prepared for him by Richard Perle , Donald Rumsfeld , Doug Feith , David Wurmser and John R. Bolton .
- July 17 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York , a Paris -bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA Flight 800 explodes killing all 230 on board.
- July 18 - 21 - Storms provoke severe Flood ing on the Saguenay River in Quebec , in one of Canada 's most costly Natural Disaster s.
- July 19 - The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , Georgia , United States , is opened by US president Bill Clinton .
- July 27 - The Centennial Olympic Park Bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills one and injures 111.
- July 29 - The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a US federal court.
- July 31 - MIL-STD- 1750A was declared inactive for use in new designs.
August
The ''Detroit of India'' and port city Madras is renamed Chennai .
September
October
November
- November - Iraq Disarmament Crisis : UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country
- incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
- November 7 - Devastating Category 4 Cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh , India . The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 persons die. 95 percent of the crops are completely destroyed.
- November 7 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor .
- November 16 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
- November 18 - World-renowned Bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to seven years in prison without Parole for leading an illegal Parrot smuggling ring.
- November 19 - U.S President Bill Clinton makes a visit to Australia in which he addresses both Houses of Parliament
- November 21 - A Propane Explosion At The Humberto Vidal Shoe Store And Office Building in San Juan , Puerto Rico kills 33.
- November 23 - The Republic Of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization , as ''Angola''.
- November 23 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.
- November 25 - Ice Storm strikes the U.S. 26 direct deaths, hundreds more from accidents. Powerful windstorm blasts Florida , winds gust to 90 mph.
- November 25 - The U.S. Stock Market s, especially the Dow Jones Industrial Average , gains at an incredibly fast pace following the 1996 Presidential elections. It gains 10 days in a row during the month (a feat that hasn't been touched as of June 2005 ), and burned through five century marks:
- ---6,100 on November 6
- ---6,200 on November 7
- ---6,300 on November 14
- ---6,400 on November 20
- ---6,500 on November 25
December
Environmental change
Unknown date
Births
Deaths
January
- February 2 - Gene Kelly , American actor (b. 1912 )
- February 3 - Audrey Meadows , American actress (b. 1926 )
- February 6 - Guy Madison , American actor (b. 1922 )
- February 7 - Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer (b. 1925 )
- February 11 - Kebby Musokotwane , Prime Minister Of Zambia (b. 1946 )
- February 11 - Cyril Poole , English cricketer (b. 1921 )
- February 11 - Phil Regan , American actor (b. 1906 )
- February 11 - Amelia Rosselli , Italian poet (b. 1930 )
- February 12 - Bob Shaw , Irish writer (b. 1931 )
- February 15 - McLean Stevenson , American actor (b. 1929 )
- February 16 - Edmund G. Brown , Governor of California (b. 1905 )
- February 16 - Brownie McGhee , American musician (b. 1915 )
- February 16 - Roger Bowen , American actor (b. 1932 )
- February 20 - Tōru Takemitsu , Japanese composer (b. 1930 )
- February 21 - Morton Gould , American musician and composer (b. 1913 )
- February 25 - Haing S. Ngor , Cambodian actor (murdered) (b. 1940 )
- February 26 - Mieczyslaw Weinberg , Polish composer (b. 1919 )
March
- March 3 - Marguerite Duras , French author and director (b. 1914 )
- March 4 - Minnie Pearl , American comedian (b. 1912 )
- March 9 - George Burns , American actor and singer (b. 1896 )
- March 13 - Krzysztof Kieślowski , Polish film director (b. 1941 )
- March 16 - Charlie Barnett , American actors (b. 1954 )
- March 17 - René Clément , French film director (b. 1913 )
- March 18 - Odysseas Elytis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
- March 19 - Chen Jingrun , Chinese mathematician
- March 26 - David Packard , American engineer (b. 1912 )
April
- May 5 - Salli Terri , Canadian mezzo-soprano (b. 1922 )
- May 15 - Charles B. Fulton , American judge (b. 1910 )
- May 17 - Kevin Gilbert , American musician, composer, and record producer (b. 1966 )
- May 20 - Jon Pertwee , British actor (b. 1919 )
- May 24 - Jacob Druckman , American composer (b. 1928 )
- May 24 - Joseph Mitchell , American writer (b. 1908 )
- May 25 - Brad Nowell , American musician (b. 1968 )
- May 31 - Paul Peter Piech , American artist (b. 1920 )
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