Events
DateEvent
1996 Veniamin Basner Died
1996 Victor Bruns Died
1996 Niccolò Castiglioni Died
1996 Edison Denisov Died
1996 Jacob Druckman Died
1996 Gottfried von Einem Died
1996 Rolande Falcinelli Died
1996 Miriam Gideon Died
October 17 1996 Berthold Goldschmidt Died
1996 Morton Gould Died
1996 Hubert Klyne Headley Died
1996 Vagn Holmboe Died
1996 Jiří Hudec Died
1996 Eugen Kapp Died
1996 Tristan Keuris Died
1996 Joonas Kokkonen Died
1996 Ton de Leeuw Died
1996 Otto Luening Died
1996 Jef Maes Died
1996 Tōru Takemitsu Died
1996 Louise Talma Died
1996 Mikael Tariverdiev Died
February 07 1996 Boris Tchaikovsky Died
1996 Mieczysław Weinberg Died
January 01 1996 Curacao Gains Self Government Though With Netherlands
1996 Michel Philippot Died
1996 Wayne Barlow Died
1996 Jurriaan Andriessen Died
January 03 1996 Motorola's StarTAC Goes On Sale
January 08 1996 Plane Kills 237 On Ground In Zaire Crash
January 09 1996 Thousands Held Hostage By Chechenian Separatists
January 11 1996 Space Shuttle Endeavour In 10th Flight
January 17 1996 Czechs Apply For EU Membership
January 19 1996 Oil Spill Occurs On Rhode Island
January 24 1996 Polish PM Oleksy Resigns Under Spying Charges
January 25 1996 Bill Bailey: Last Person Hanged In U.S
January 27 1996 Niger President Deposed In Military Coup
January 27 1996 Germany Observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 29 1996 Chirac: France Ends Nuclear Weapons Testing
January 29 1996 The La Fenice Is Burned Down
January 31 1996 Sri Lanka: Explosion At Bank Kills 86
January 31 1996 Comet Discovered By Japanese Amatuer Astronomer
February 01 1996 US Passes Communications Decency Act
February 04 1996 Paralyzing Midwest Storm Ties Record Low
February 06 1996 Willamette Valley Flood
February 06 1996 Worst Ever Boeing Crash In Dominican Republic
February 08 1996 Communications Decency Act Passed By US Congress
February 08 1996 24 Hours In Cyberspace Collaboration Happens
February 09 1996 Ireland Ends Peace; Bombs London
February 10 1996 IBM's Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov
February 15 1996 Failed Rocket Launch Hits Chinese Village
February 17 1996 Kasparov Beats Supercomputer At Chess In Philadelphia
February 17 1996 NASA Probe Launches, Destination Asteroid
February 29 1996 Faucett Flight 251 Crashes In The Andes
March 04 1996 Wisconsin Train Derailing Causes Emergency Evacuation
March 13 1996 16 Schoolchildren Shot In Dunblane Massacre
March 18 1996 Philippines Nightclub Fire Kills 162
March 23 1996 Taiwan Elects Lee Teng-hui As First President
March 25 1996 An 81-day-long Standoff Begins
March 25 1996 European Veterinarian Committee Bans Beef Export
April 03 1996 Suspected 'Unabomber' Captured In Montana Cabin
April 03 1996 USAF Plane Crashes Killing Commerce Secretary
April 04 1996 Asteroid Orbiter Imaged Comet Hyakutake
April 18 1996 Lebanon U.N. Compound Shelled, Refugees Killed
April 24 1996 Antiterrorism Act Of 1996 Passed
April 27 1996 The 1996 Lebanon War Ends
April 28 1996 Clintons Tesimony During Whiteater Controversy
April 28 1996 Bryant Kills 35 At Tasmanian Cafe
May 06 1996 William Colby's Body Was Found On A Riverbank In Maryland
May 11 1996 Fire Causes Airplane Crash In Florida
May 11 1996 Eight People Die On Mount Everest
May 13 1996 Bangladesh Thunderstorms And Tornado Kill 600
May 20 1996 U.S. Supreme Court Repeals Gay Rights
May 21 1996 Ferry Sinks On Lake Victoria, Kills Passengers
May 21 1996 Martyrs Kidnapped During Civil War, Found Dead
May 27 1996 Boris Yeltsin Meets With Chechnyan Rebels To Negotiate Cease-fire
May 28 1996 McDougals And Arkansas Governor Fraud Conviction
June 04 1996 Ariane 5 Explodes In Flight
June 10 1996 Peace Talks Begin Without Sinn Fein, N. Ireland
June 12 1996 Federal Judges Block Internet Indecency Law, Philadelphia
June 13 1996 Montana Freemen Surrender After Standoff With FBI
June 15 1996 Manchester Bombing Attributed To IRA Provos
June 18 1996 Ted Kaczynski Found Guilty On 10 Counts
June 28 1996 Ukraine Constitution Signed Into Law
July 03 1996 Stone Of Scone Is Returned To Scotland
July 05 1996 Sheep Cloned From Adult Cell
July 15 1996 Royal Netherlands Army Musicians Plane Crashes At Eindhoven Airport
July 17 1996 Plane Explodes Near New York Killing 230
July 17 1996 Portuguese Language Countries Community Founded
July 18 1996 The Saguenay Flood Devastated Quebec
July 18 1996 Battle Of Mullaitivu Occurs In Sri Lanka
July 25 1996 Burundi Military Coup: Buyoya Deposes Ntibantunganya
July 27 1996 A Bomb Kills Two In Atlanta
July 28 1996 The Kennewick Man Is Discovered
July 29 1996 US Federal Court Rejects Child Protection Portion Of Act
August 06 1996 NASA Finds Evidence Of Life In Meteorite
August 14 1996 Greek Refugee Murdered By Turkish Forces
August 22 1996 Clinton Signs Welfare Reform Law
August 23 1996 Bin Laden Issues War Message
August 28 1996 Charles And Diana Divorce
August 29 1996 Vnukovo Airlines Flight Crashes - 141 Killed
August 31 1996 Iraqi Troops Seize Irbil
September 04 1996 FARC Starts Guerrilla Warfare, Killing 130 Colombians
September 05 1996 Hurrican Fran Causes Death And Destruction Near Cape Fear
September 24 1996 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Signed
September 25 1996 Ireland's Magdalene Last Asylums Closed
September 27 1996 The Taiban Captured Kabul
September 27 1996 Oil Tanker Crash Spills Oil In Maine
September 28 1996 Former Afghanistan President Najibullah Is Murdered
September 30 1996 Congress Bans Firearms For Convicted Domestic Assaltants
October 02 1996 Clinton Signs Electronic Freedom Of Information Act Amendments
October 02 1996 Flight 603 Crashes Into Pacific, 70 Dead
October 07 1996 The Fox News Channel Begins Broadcasting
October 11 1996 Eight Children Dead In Estonian Bus Crash
October 16 1996 84 Dead In Guatemala City Stadium Crush
November 03 1996 Catli's Death Causes Agar's Resignation
November 05 1996 Pakistan's President Dismissed The Government
November 07 1996 NASA Launches The Mars Global Surveyor
November 12 1996 Deadliest Colision: 349 In New Delhi
November 18 1996 Fire On A Train In Channel Tunnel
November 19 1996 Lt. Gen. Baril Leads Police In Zaire
November 21 1996 Humberto Vidal Explosion Kills 33
November 23 1996 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961- Hijacked
November 25 1996 Ice Storm Strikes Central U.S., Killing 26
December 20 1996 Apple Computer Merges With NeXT
December 26 1996 JonBenét Ramsey Is Found Dead In Boulder
December 26 1996 Largest South Korean Strike Begins
December 27 1996 Taliban Forces Retake Bagram Airfield
December 29 1996 Guatemala And Leaders Sign A Peace
December 30 1996 26 Killed In Train Bombing In Assam
December 30 1996 Israeli Workers Protest Budget Cuts