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1996 Calendar

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•  January 8, 1996 – An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
•  January 27, 1996 – In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
•  January 31, 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
•  February 4, 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F (-32.2°C)
•  February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  May 21, 1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
•  June 15, 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
•  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 24, 1996 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

•  February 1, 1996 – Alex Bausch, Pokemon League Champion and Sole Apocalypse Survivor
•  March 9, 1996 – Darsheel Safary, Indian actor
•  March 18, 1996 – Madeline Carroll, American actress
•  June 7, 1996 – Jasper Harris, English actor
•  June 18, 1996 – Jade-Lianna Peters, Chinese-born naturalized American television voice actress
•  June 27, 1996 – Tanay Chheda, Indian actor
•  July 1, 1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
•  July 23, 1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress
•  August 21, 1996 – Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress
•  November 13, 1996 – Austin Williams, American actor