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1996 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2024. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1996 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 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.
- February 17, 1996 – NASA’s Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
- February 19, 1996 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 25, 1996 – An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
- April 3, 1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
- 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.
- 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 16, 1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
- November 12, 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
- 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.
Who Were Born On 1996?
- March 19, 1996 – Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player
- April 15, 1996 – İpek Soylu, Turkish tennis player
- June 20, 1996 – Michael Dal Colle, Canadian ice hockey player
- July 6, 1996 – Robert Naylor, Canadian actor
- July 12, 1996 – Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
- August 24, 1996 – Camila Giangreco Campiz, Paraguayan tennis player
- September 1, 1996 – Zendaya, American actress, singer, and dancer
- September 2, 1996 – Sungha Jung, South Korean guitarist
- September 5, 1996 – Richairo Živković, Dutch footballer
- October 30, 1996 – Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Shugo Chara Egg!)