Year (''' MCMXCVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian Calendar ).
The year 1996 was designated the ''International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. It was also the Chinese New Year of the Rat , a year traditionally feared for Natural Disasters .
- February 8 - An IRA ceasefire ends with a 1-ton bomb in London's Canary Wharf District , killing 2 and causing over 1 billion pounds worth of damage.
- February 9 - Discovery of the element Ununbium
- February 10 - Chess Computer " Deep Blue " defeats world Chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- February 15 - In south-west Wales , the Sea Empress oil tanker runs aground, spilling 73,000 tonnes of crude oil, killing many birds.
- February 15 - The U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece comes under mortar fire.
- February 17 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , Garry Kasparov beats " Deep Blue " in a second Chess match.
- February 18 - An IRA briefcase bomb in a bus kills the bomber and injures 9 in the West End Of London .
- February 29 - In Lumberton, North Carolina , Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan , the father of basketball star Michael Jordan .
- inspection teams access to 5 sites designated for inspection. The teams enter the sites only after delays of up to 17 hours.
- March 2 - John Howard is elected Prime Minister Of Australia in a landslide, over the Labor Party's Paul Keating .
- March 2 - Ranabima Royal College, Sri Lanka, is established.
- March 9 - Jorge Sampaio is the new Portuguese president.
- walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing 16 students and 1 teacher before fatally shooting himself.
- March 17 - Sri Lanka wins the Cricket World Cup by storming to a famous victory against the tournament favourite Australia .
- March 19 - Sarajevo becomes a united city again when Bosniak authorities take control of the last district held by Serbs .
- March 20 - In Los Angeles, California , Lyle And Erik Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
- March 20 - The British Government announces that Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has been likely transmitted to people.
- March 23 - The Republic Of China on Taiwan holds its first direct elections for president; Lee Teng-hui is re-elected.
- March 25 - An 81-day long standoff between antigovernment Freemen in Jordan, Montana and federal officers begins.
- March 26 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan to Russia for economic reform.
- March 28 - Fire breaks out at the Pasar Anyar shopping centre in Bogor , West Java . The first death toll estimate is 78 until rescuers notice that 68 of them are Mannequin s.
- March 28 - Three British soldiers are found guilty of the manslaughter of Danish tour guide Louise Jensen in Cyprus . Allan Ford , Justin Fowler and Geoffrey Pernell receive life sentences for their crime, which was committed in September 1994 .
- March 30 - The Jeff Kennett government is re-elected in Victoria with a 30 seat majority.
- April 1 - The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created.
- April 2 - U.S. Mafioso John Gotti is found guilty of murdering Paul Castellano .
- April 3 - A plane carrying United States Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashes near Dubrovnik , Croatia .
- April 3 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
- April 3 - A Lunar Eclipse occurs.
- April 3 - Panathinaikos FC beats Ajax Amsterdam in Amsterdam 0-1 in the semi-finals of Champions League. The winning goal is scored by Krzysztof Warzycha in the 89th minute of the match
- April 6 - Major League Soccer kicks off in front of an overflow crowd of 31,683 packed Spartan Stadium to witness the historic first game. San Jose Clash forward Eric Wynalda scored the league's first goal in a 1-0 victory over D. C. United .
- April 12 - Jessica Dubroff , aged 7, is killed in a crash near Cheyenne, Wyoming while attempting to set a record as the youngest person to pilot an airplane across the United States.
- April 16 - The NBA's 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls , with Michael Jordan 's lead, go on to set a new NBA record for the most wins in a season, achieving their 70th win.
- civilians are killed after Israel shells the UN compound in Qana .
- kills 35 people at the Port Arthur, Tasmania tourist site, Australia .
- Iraq Disarmament Crisis : UNSCOM supervises the destruction of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare agents.
- May 8 - dedication of the Keck 2 telescope
- May 10 - A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead. By the end of the month, at least 4 other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.
- May 11 - After takeoff from Miami, Florida , a fire started by improperly-handled Oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta -bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades , killing all 110 on board.
- May 13 - Severe Thunderstorm s and a Tornado in Bangladesh kill 600.
- rules ('' Romer V. Evans '') against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of Homosexuals .
- May 21 - The '' MV Bukoba '' sinks in Tanzania n waters in Lake Victoria , killing nearly 1,000 in one of Africa 's worst maritime disasters.
- May 21 - The Trappist Martyrs Of Atlas are executed.
- May 23 - Swede Göran Kropp reaches the Mount Everest summit alone without Oxygen , after having bicycled there from Sweden .
- n President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnya n rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
- May 31 - FIFA decides to give the FIFA World Cup 2002 , the first World Cup in Asia , to Japan and South Korea , becoming the first World Cup with co-host countries in the history of the event.
- Iraq Disarmament Crisis : As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the U.S. fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
- June 7 - An IRA gang murders Detective Garda Jerry McCabe during a botched armed robbery in Adare, County Limerick .
- June 8 - Steffi Graf defeats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the longest ever women's final at the French Open to win her 19th Grand Slam title.
- June 10 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin .
- June 10 - The Colorado Avalanche win their first Stanley Cup, defeating the Florida Panthers 4 games to none. Avalanche captain Joe Sakic wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
- June 12 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the Internet . The panel says that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the Free Speech rights of adults.
- June 13 - An 81-day standoff between the Montana Freemen and FBI agents ends with their surrender in Montana .
- June 15 - In Manchester , UK , a Massive IRA Bomb Injures Over 200 People and devastates a large part of the city centre.
- June 16 - The Chicago Bulls win their 4th NBA Championship by defeating the Seattle Supersonics in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 2.
- June 23 - The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan .
- June 25 - The Khobar Towers Bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
- June 26 - Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot and killed in her car just outside Dublin .
- June 29 - The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London , and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989 .
- June 30 - Costas Simitis is elected President of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece .
- June 30 - Germany beats the Czech Republic 2-1 with a Golden Goal to win Euro 96 .
- attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport, but is blocked by Iraq i officials.
- The Prague Manifesto declares the 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 at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian , Scotland .
- July 8 - Martina Hingis becomes the youngest person in History (age 15 years and 282 days) to win at Wimbledon in the Ladies' Doubles event.
- July 17 - Paris -bound TWA Flight 800 ( Boeing 747 ) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York , killing all 230 on board.
- July 18 - Howard Hughes is sentenced to life imprisonment at Chester Crown Court for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Sophie Hook at Llandudno 12 months previously. The trial judge recommends that Hughes, 31, should never be released.
- July 19 - The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , United States , is opened by U.S. President Bill Clinton .
- July 21 - Storms provoke severe Flood ing on the Saguenay River in Quebec , in one of Canada 's most costly Natural Disaster s.
- July 27 - The Centennial Olympic Park Bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills 1 and injures 111.
- July 29 - The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
- August 1 - Sarah Balabagan returns to the Philippines .
- August 4 - The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude.
- August 6 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars , contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- August 6 - The Australia n Census is conducted.
- August 7 - Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near Huesca , Spain .
- August 11 - The British rock band Oasis plays the biggest free-standing concert in UK history at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
- August 13 - Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there may be Water on one of Jupiter 's moons.
- August 15 - Bob Dole is nominated for President, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego , California .
- August 23 - Osama Bin Laden writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," his first open call for war.
- August 28 - Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court Of Justice in London . Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled Diana, Princess Of Wales .
- August 29 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are renominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago .
- and capture Arbil.
- August 31 - The Big 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game between Kansas State University and Texas Tech University in Manhattan, Kansas .
- 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 - A 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 10 - Rapper Yaki Kadafi , born Yafeu Fula, is shot to death in New Jersey at the age of 19.
- November 12 - Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 has a mid-air collision with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76, resulting in the loss of 349 lives.
- November 15 - State Street in Chicago is re-opened to pedestrian traffic.
- November 16 - Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship.
- November 18 - World-renowned Bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to 7 years in prison without Parole for leading an illegal Parrot smuggling ring.
- November 18 - Martyn Bryant is sentenced to life imprisonment, 2 weeks after confessing to murdering 35 people in Tasmania earlier this year.
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- 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''.
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- December 2 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Electronic Freedom Of Information Act Amendments .
- December 5 - Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan gives a speech in which he suggests that " Irrational Exuberance " may have "unduly escalated asset values".
- December 12 - Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
- December 17 - The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in the Japan ese Embassy in Lima , Peru .
- December 20 - Steve Jobs 's company NeXT is bought by Apple Computer , the company co-founded by Jobs.
- December 26 - Start of the Largest Strike in South Korea n history.
- December 26 - Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey is murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado.
- December 27 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Air Base , which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul .
- December 29 - Guatemala and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year Civil War .
- December 30 - In the India n state of Assam , a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
- December 30 - Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers, who shut down services across Israel .
- December 31 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway is merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway , making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U.S. history.
- General Motors EV1 launched. The EV1 is the first electric car to go into mass production.
The following are references to year 1996 in fiction:
- January 1 - Mary Gibbs , American actress
- January 5 - Max Baldry , English/Russian actor
- January 29 - Megan Jossa , English actress
- February 7 - Mai Hagiwara , Japanese singer
- February 9 - Jimmy Bennett , American actor
- February 17 - Sasha Pieterse , South African actress
- February 28 - Bobbe' J. Thompson , American actor
- March 6 - Savanah Stehlin , American actress
- March 18 - Madeline Carroll , American actress
- April 14 - Abigail Breslin , American actress
- April 17 - Dee Dee Davis , American actress
- April 25 - Allisyn Ashley Arm , American actress
- May 2 - Megan McKinnon , Canadian actress
- July 5 - Dolly The Sheep , first cloned mammal (d. 2003 )
- July 23 - Rachel G. Fox , American actress
- August 7 - Tessa Allen , American actress
- August 17 - Ella Cruz , Filipina actress
- August 21 - Jamia Simone Nash , American actress
- August 23 - Eliza Pineda , Filipina actress
- September 8 - Krystal Reyes , Filipina actress
- September 27 - Princess Iman Bint Al Abdullah II
- October 3 - Adair Tishler , American actress
- October 8 - Kylee Russell , American actress
- October 28 - Jasmine Jessica Anthony , American actress
- October 28 - Naelee Rae , American actress
- November 3 - Aria Wallace , American actress
- November 22 - Madison Davenport , American actress and singer
- November 27 - Alexandra Astin , American actress
- January 2 - Karl Targownik , Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915 )
- January 5 - Yahya Ayyash , Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966 )
- January 8 - François Mitterrand , President Of France (b. 1916 )
- January 9 - Fearless Nadia , Indian actress and stuntwoman (b. 1908 )
- January 9 - Sultan Rahi , Pakistani film actor (b. 1938 )
- January 15 - Les Baxter , American musician and composer (b. 1922 )
- January 15 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II Of Lesotho (b. 1938 )
- January 17 - Barbara Jordan , American politician (b. 1936 )
- January 18 - Leonor Fini , Argentine artist (b. 1908 )
- January 18 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao , Indian (Telugu) film actor (b. 1923 )
- January 20 - Gerry Mulligan , American musician (b. 1927 )
- January 25 - Jonathan Larson , American composer and playwright (b. 1960 )
- January 28 - Joseph Brodsky , Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940 )
- January 28 - Jerry Siegel , American cartoonist (b. 1914 )
- January 31 - Gustave Solomon , American mathematician and engineer (b. 1930 )
- 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 14 - Bob Paisley , English football manager (b. 1919 )
- 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 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 actor (b. 1954 )
- March 17 - René Clément , French film director (b. 1913 )
- March 18 - Odysseas Elytis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
- March 19 - Virginia Henderson , American nurse theorist (b. 1897 )
- March 19 - Chen Jingrun , Chinese mathematician (b. 1933 )
- March 25 - John Snagge , British radio personality (b. 1904 )
- March 26 - David Packard , American engineer (b. 1912 )
- March 29 - Frank Daniel , Czech-born writer, director, producer, teacher (b. 1926 )
- March 31 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce , American musician ( The Gun Club and The Cramps ) (b. 1958 )
- April 1 - Florence Buchsbaum , theater director and musician (b. 1926 )
- April 3 - Carl Stokes , American politician (b. 1927 )
- April 4 - Barney Ewell , American athlete (b. 1918 )
- April 4 - Larry LaPrise , American songwriter (b. 1912 )
- April 6 - Greer Garson , English actress (b. 1904 )
- April 8 - George W. Jenkins , American businessman (b. 1907 )
- April 20 - Christopher Robin Milne , English author and bookseller (b. 1920 )
- April 21 - Dzhokhar Dudaev , Chechen President (b. 1944 )
- April 22 - Erma Bombeck , American humorist and writer (b. 1927 )
- April 25 - Saul Bass , American graphic designer (b. 1920 )
- April 26 - Stirling Silliphant , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918 )
- May 5 - Salli Terri , Canadian mezzo-soprano (b. 1922 )
- May 11 - Rob Hall , New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961 )
- May 15 - Charles B. Fulton , American judge (b. 1910 )
- May 17 - Kevin Gilbert , American musician, composer, and record producer (b. 1966 )
- May 17 - Scott Brayton , American race car driver (b. 1959 )
- May 20 - Jon Pertwee , British actor (b. 1919 )
- May 21 - Paul Delph , American musician and producer (b. 1957 )
- May 22 - Seymour H. Knox III , hockey team owner (b. 1926 )
- May 24 - Jacob Druckman , American composer (b. 1928 )
- May 24 - Joseph Mitchell , American writer (b. 1908 )
- May 25 - Brad Nowell , American musician (b. 1968 )
- June 2 - Ray Combs , American game show host, and comedian (suicide) (b. 1956 )
- June 2 - Leon Garfield , English children's author (b. 1921 )
- June 6 - George Davis Snell , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1903 )
- June 10 - Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky , Austrian painter (b. 1906 )
- June 15 - Ella Fitzgerald , American singer (b. 1917 )
- June 17 - Thomas Kuhn , American philosopher of science (b. 1922 )
- June 19 - G. David Schine , American businessman (b. 1927 )
- June 23 - Andreas Papandreou , Prime Minister Of Greece (b. 1919 )
- June 26 - Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist (murdered) (b. 1958 )
- September 1 - Vagn Holmboe , Danish composer (b. 1909 )
- September 9 - Bill Monroe , American "father of Bluegrass " music (b. 1911 )
- September 10 - Hans List , Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1896 )
- September 13 - Tupac Amaru Shakur , American rapper and actor (b. 1971 )
- September 17 - Spiro Agnew , American Vice President (b. 1918 )
- September 20 - Paul Erdős , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911 )
- September 21 - Henri Nouwen , Dutch Catholic priest and author (b. 1932 )
- September 21 - Geoffrey Wilkinson , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926 )
- September 26 - Nicu Ceauşescu , son of Romania n leader Nicolae Ceauşescu (b. 1951)
- September 29 - Leslie Crowther , British TV comedian & game show host (b. 1933 )
- November 2 - Eva Cassidy , American vocalist (b. 1963 )
- November 3 - Abdullah Çatlı , Turkish nationalist (b. 1956 )
- November 3 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa of Central African Republic / Empire (b. 1921 )
- November 10 - Yafeu Fula , rapper (b. 1977 )
- November 10 - Imam Alimsultanov , Chechen bard (b. 1957 )
- November 14 - Virginia Cherrill , actress (b. 1908 )
- November 15 - Alger Hiss , U.S. State Department official (b. 1904 )
- November 21 - Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926 )
- November 26 - Mark Lenard , American actor (b. 1924 )
- November 26 - Paul Rand , American graphic designer (b. 1914 )
- November 30 - Tiny Tim , American musician (b. 1932 )
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