1996 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1996?
- 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.
- January 5, 1996 – Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
- January 24, 1996 – Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
- January 31, 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
- February 17, 1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
- February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 23, 1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
- April 18, 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
- April 28, 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- May 28, 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
- June 4, 1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
- 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.
- 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.
- August 6, 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- August 22, 1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- August 29, 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
- November 23, 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- December 27, 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
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