Portal:Current events/October 1996

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October 1996 was the tenth month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Tuesday, ended on a Thursday after 31 days.

Portal:Current events[edit]

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from October 1996.

October 1, 1996 (1996-10-01) (Tuesday)
October 2, 1996 (1996-10-02) (Wednesday)
October 5, 1996 (1996-10-05) (Saturday)
  • Yasser Arafat meets with European leaders in preparation for renewed peace talks with Israel.
October 6, 1996 (1996-10-06) (Sunday)
  • Yasser Arafat returns triumphant to Gaza for Middle East peace talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • The government of New Zealand agrees to pay $130,000,000 worth of compensation for the loss of land suffered by the Māori population between the years of 1844 and 1864.
October 7, 1996 (1996-10-07) (Monday)
October 8, 1996 (1996-10-08) (Tuesday)
  • Irish Republican Army terrorists plant bombs at a heavily secured British army base south-west of Belfast: 31 soldiers and civilians are injured.
  • Footage of Princess Diana and James Hewitt from five years ago is released.
  • Demolition workers tear down the former home of mass murderers Fred and Rosemary West.
October 15, 1996 (1996-10-15) (Tuesday)
  • Several large strikes begin in various industries across Belgium in protest to the dismissal of the magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte by the Supreme Court.
October 22, 1996 (1996-10-22) (Tuesday)
  • A fire at La Planta prison in southwest Caracas, Venezuela, kills thirty prisoners.
October 23, 1996 (1996-10-23) (Wednesday)
October 26, 1996 (1996-10-26) (Saturday)
October 30, 1996 (1996-10-30) (Wednesday)
October 31, 1996 (1996-10-31) (Thursday)
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