1996 Calendar
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1996 Historical Event(s)
- January 11, 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
- January 24, 1996 – Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
- January 29, 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear weapons testing.
- February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- August 31, 1996 – Saddam Hussein’s troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
- 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 11, 1996 – Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
- December 20, 1996 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
- December 26, 1996 – Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
- December 30, 1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
Who Were Born On 1996?
- February 7, 1996 – Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
- March 9, 1996 – Darsheel Safary, Indian actor
- April 14, 1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
- June 7, 1996 – Jasper Harris, English actor
- July 1, 1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
- July 12, 1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
- July 23, 1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress
- September 1, 1996 – Zendaya, American actress
- September 2, 1996 – Sungha Jung, South Korean guitar prodigy
- December 6, 1996 – Stefanie Scott, American actress