1996 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1996?
- January 1, 1996 – Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Netherlands.
- January 27, 1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- January 29, 1996 – La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
- February 8, 1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
- February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- May 11, 1996 – The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
- May 21, 1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
- June 10, 1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
- June 12, 1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
- June 13, 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
- June 18, 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
- July 5, 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
- August 14, 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
- August 22, 1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- August 23, 1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
- 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.
- November 19, 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
- December 27, 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
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