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1996 Calendar

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•  February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  March 25, 1996 – The European Union’s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
•  April 3, 1996 – Suspected “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.
•  May 13, 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
•  July 3, 1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
•  July 17, 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
•  July 18, 1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army’s base, killing over 1200 Army soldiers.
•  August 23, 1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
•  November 7, 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

•  January 5, 1996 – Max Baldry, English actor
•  January 26, 1996 – Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor
•  January 31, 1996 – Joel Courtney, American film actor
•  February 7, 1996 – Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
•  February 9, 1996 – Jimmy Bennett, American actor
•  April 25, 1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress
•  May 6, 1996 – Dominic Scott Kay, American actor
•  June 7, 1996 – Jasper Harris, English actor
•  July 12, 1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
•  October 3, 1996 – Adair Tishler, American actress