What Happened In January 1996 In History

Historical Events for January, 1996

• 1st » Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Netherlands.
• 3rd » The Motorola StarTAC, the first Flip (form) e.g flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
• 9th » First Chechen War: Chechen people Chechen Separatism separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis a massiv
• 11th » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of 'Space Shuttle Endeavour or Endeavour'.
• 17th » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
• 19th » The barge 'North Cape (ship) known as North Cape' oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat 'Scandia' ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
• 24th » Poland called Polish Prime Minister of Poland named Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
• 25th » Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
• 27th » Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 29th » President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
• 31st » An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
• 31st » Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1996

• 4th » Jade Jones (Paralympian) e.g Jade Jones, English wheelchair racer
• 6th » Kishan Shrikanth, Indian actor
• 10th » María Paulina Pérez, Colombian tennis player
• 10th » Paula Andrea Pérez, Colombian tennis player
• 12th » Ai Hashimoto, Japanese actress and fashion model
• 12th » Ella Henderson, English singer-songwriter
• 15th » Dove Cameron, American actress
• 23rd » Chachi Gonzales, American dancer
• 26th » Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (d. 2014)
• 26th » Tyger Drew-Honey, English actor
• 27th » Braeden Lemasters, American actor and singer
• 28th » Emily Piriz, American singer
• 29th » Nora Foss al-Jabri, Iraqi-Norwegian singer
• 29th » Megan Jossa, English actress
• 29th » Juho Lammikko, Finnish ice hockey player
• 31st » Joel Courtney, American actor

Famous Deaths for January 1996

• 1st » Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1st » Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
• 2nd » Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
• 2nd » Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1905)
• 4th » Ramón Vinay, Chilean tenor (b. 1911)
• 5th » Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian Hamas member (b. 1966)
• 5th » Lincoln Kirstein, American director (b. 1907)
• 7th » Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
• 7th » Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
• 8th » John Hargreaves (Australian actor) e.g John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
• 8th » François Mitterrand, French politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916)
• 8th » Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907)
• 9th » Walter M. Miller, Jr., American author (b. 1923)
• 12th » Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
• 15th » Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 15th » Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
• 15th » Rudolf Wanderone, American billiards player (b. 1913)
• 16th » Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903)
• 16th » Kaye Webb, English journalist and publisher(b. 1914)
• 17th » Amber Hagerman, American kidnapped victim, inspired the AMBER Alert called AMBER Alert system (b. 1986)
• 17th » Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
• 17th » Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
• 18th » N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
• 19th » Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 20th » Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1927)
• 21st » René Marc Jalbert, Canadian sergeant (b. 1921)
• 22nd » Israel Eldad, Polish-Israeli philosopher (b. 1910)
• 25th » Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960)
• 26th » Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, (b. 1921)
• 26th » Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
• 26th » Frank Howard (American football coach) e.g Frank Howard, American football player and coach (b. 1909)
• 26th » Henry Lewis (musician) known as Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 26th » Stevie Plunder, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Whitlams) (b. 1963)
• 26th » Dave Schultz (wrestling) e.g Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)
• 27th » Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
• 28th » Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• 28th » Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
• 28th » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)

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