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1996 Calendar

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•  January 29, 1996 – La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
•  February 9, 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London’s Canary Wharf.
•  February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  February 29, 1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people.
•  May 27, 1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
•  June 12, 1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
•  July 18, 1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army’s base, killing over 1200 Army soldiers.
•  September 7, 1996 – American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match.
•  October 31, 1996 – A Fokker F100 operating as TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.
•  November 19, 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

•  February 17, 1996 – Sasha Pieterse, South African/American actress
•  March 18, 1996 – Madeline Carroll, American actress
•  April 17, 1996 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress
•  May 6, 1996 – Dominic Scott Kay, American actor
•  June 7, 1996 – Jasper Harris, English actor
•  June 18, 1996 – Jade-Lianna Peters, Chinese-born naturalized American television voice actress
•  July 1, 1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
•  July 12, 1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
•  July 23, 1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress
•  December 6, 1996 – Stefanie Scott, American actress