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1996 ( MCMXCVI ) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar).

The year 1996 was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty .

Events of 1996

January

• January 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia temporarily gives power to Crown Prince Abdullah, his legal successor, due to illness.
• January 3 – Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone, the world's smallest and lightest mobile phone at that time.
• January 4 – Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, appoints a new government in response to accusations of corruption in the parliamentary elections in late 1995.
• January 7 – One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people. Philadelphia, PA receives a record 30.7 inches of snowfall, New York City's public schools close for the first time in 18 years and the federal government in Washington, D.C. is closed for days.
• January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa, killing 350.
• January 9 – Art forger Eric Hebborn is assassinated in Rome, Italy.
• January 9 –20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya.
• January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
• January 13 – Italy's prime minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by president Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government.
• January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal.
• January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. Bio promises to restore power following elections scheduled for February.
• January 19 – The North Cape Oil Spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. The North Cape Barge is pulled along with it and leaks 820,000 gallons of home heating oil.
• January 19 – An Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.
• January 20 – Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority.

• January 22 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, resigns due to health problems; a new government forms under Costas Simitis.
• January 23 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
• January 24 – Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow. He is replaced by Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz.
• January 26 – Whitewater scandal: U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
• January 27 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
• January 28 – Super Bowl XXX: The Dallas Cowboys become the first NFL franchise to win 3 Super Bowls in a span of 4 seasons, as they defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27–17 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. It is the Cowboys' 5th Super Bowl championship.
• January 29 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
• January 29 – Fire destroys La Fenice, Venice's opera house.
• January 29 – Imia-Kardak crisis: A Greek flag is hoisted on a small rocky island named Imia (Greek) / Kardak (Turkish).
• January 30 – Irish National Liberation Army leader Gino Gallagher is killed in an internal feud, while in line for his unemployment benefits.
• January 30 – February 5 – Sarah Balabagan is caned in the United Arab Emirates.
• January 31 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
• January 31 – An explosion in Shaoyang, China kills 122 and injures over 400 when 10 tons of dynamite in an illegal explosives warehouse underneath an apartment building detonate.
• January 31 – A bomb planted by the Tamil Tigers explodes in Colombo, killing 88 and injuring hundreds more.

February

• February 4 – An earthquake near Lijiang in southwest China, measuring up to 7 on the Richter scale, kills at least 240 people, injures more than 14,000 and makes hundreds of thousands homeless.
• February 6 – A Birgenair Boeing 757, on an unauthorised charter flight from the Caribbean to Germany, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 passengers and crew (see Birgenair Flight 301).
• February 7 – René Préval succeeds Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti, in the first peaceful handover of power since the nation achieved independence.
• February 8 – An IRA ceasefire ends with a half-tonne bomb in London's Canary Wharf District, killing 2 and causing over £85 million worth of damage.
• February 9 – The element Ununbium is discovered.
• February 10 – Chess computer "Deep Blue" defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.
• February 10 – Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.
• February 14 – Violent clashes erupt between Filipino soldiers and Vietnamese boat people, as the Philippines government attempts to forcibly repatriate hundreds of Vietnamese asylum seekers.
• February 15 – In south-west Wales, the oil tanker Sea Empress runs aground, spilling 73,000 tonnes of crude oil, killing many birds.
• February 15 – The U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece comes under mortar fire.
• February 15 – A Long March 3 rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing as many as 500.
• February 15 – Begum Khaleda Zia is reelected as prime minister of Bangladesh. The country's second democratic election is marred by low voter turnout, due to several boycotts and pre-election violence, which result in at least 13 deaths.
• February 15 – The UK government publishes the Scott Report.
• February 17 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Garry Kasparov beats "Deep Blue" in a second chess match.

• February 17 – In Irian Jaya, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 and associated tidal waves kills 102 people and causes widespread devastation.
• February 18 – An IRA briefcase bomb in a bus kills the bomber and injures 9 in the West End of London.
• February 19 – A wooden ferry capsizes as it enters the port of Cádiz in the Philippines, killing 54 people.
• February 21 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announces his medical recovery in the national press and assumes power again from his brother, Crown Prince Abdullah.
• February 24 – Cuban fighter jets shoot down 2 American aircraft belonging to the Cuban exile group, Brothers to the Rescue. Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace.
• February 25 – Two suicide bombs in Israel kill 27 and injure 80; Hamas claims responsibility.
• February 28 – Canadian singer Alanis Morissette wins the top honor, Album of the Year award, at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards. She is the youngest person to ever win this award, a record she still holds.
• February 29 – In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
• February 29 – A Boeing 737 flying for Faucett Airlines in route from Lima to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa; all 123 people on board are killed (see Faucett Flight 251).
• February 29 – At least 81 people drown when a boat capsizes 120 kilometres east of Kampala, Uganda.

March

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