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 3, 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
- February 6, 1996 – Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- February 8, 1996 – The massive Internet collaboration “24 Hours in Cyberspace” takes place.
- February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- April 28, 1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
- May 6, 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
- May 13, 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
- 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 15, 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
- June 25, 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
- June 26, 1996 – Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
- June 28, 1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
- September 4, 1996 – War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
- 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 3, 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
- December 20, 1996 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
- December 27, 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
- December 29, 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
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