Historical Events In 1996

Jan 27 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

Jan 11 Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space

Jan 23 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs Zimbabwe

Jan 27 Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 05 Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs West Indies at the Gabba

Jan 21 53th Golden Globes Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta

Jan 01 Curaçao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte)

Jan 27 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies

Jan 12 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia on a peace keeping mission with the NATO countries

Jan 17 Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman got life in prison and 16 others were also sentenced to jail for plotting to bomb the United Nations.

Jan 08 For first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Feb 21 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit

Feb 29 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup

Feb 08 US bookstore chain Borders says it will invest in a chain of bookstores in Canada; Ottawa will block the plan under the cultural exemption of NAFTA.

Feb 23 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands

Feb 16 Gary Kirsten scores 188 for South Africa vs UAE at Rawalpindi

Feb 27 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India

Feb 29 Soyuz TM-23, lands

Feb 18 Tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya

Feb 02 Actor and dancer Gene Kelly dies at his Beverly Hills, California, home at age 83.

Feb 22 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit

Feb 29 Daniel Green is convicted of murdering the father of basketball star Michael Jordan during a 1993 holdup, and is sentenced to life in prison.

Feb 02 Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA

Feb 01 Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index breaks through the symbolic 5,000 mark for the first time, our Dow Jones

Feb 15 Prime Minister Jean Chrétien scuffles with a protestor disrupting Flag Day ceremonies

Feb 23 Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve

Feb 29 A Peruvian jetliner crashes in the Andes, killing all 123 people aboard.

Feb 06 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence

Feb 22 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice

Feb 24 Cuba downs 2 US planes

Feb 13 Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway

Feb 10 Minneapolis, Minnesota Timmins country singer Shania Twain draws a crowd of up to 20,000 fans for an autograph session at the giant Mall of America

Feb 28 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins

Feb 10 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov

Feb 13 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"

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