What Happened in February 1996

• Feb 1 The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.

• Feb 5 British supermarket chains stock genetically modified tomato puree - the first GM food to be sold in the country
• Feb 6 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence

• Feb 8 The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place
• Feb 8 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
• Feb 9 The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
• Feb 9 WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM
• Feb 10 A bomb explodes in Docklands area of London, ending the 17-month ceasefire; James McArdle is eventually found guilty and jailed for 25 years

• Feb 13 "The Score" second studio album by Fugees is released (Billboard no. 1 year end Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums 1996)

• Feb 13 Death Row/Interscope Records releases rapper Tupac Shakur his 4th studio album "All Eyez on Me"; becomes his final release during his lifetime
• Feb 13 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"
• Feb 13 Rock musical "Rent" by Jonathan Larson opens off-Broadway

• Feb 15 46th Berlin International Film Festival: "Sense and Sensibility" wins the Golden Bear

• Feb 15 Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece

• Feb 16 Gary Kirsten scores 188* for South Africa v UAE at Rawalpindi
• Feb 17 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
• Feb 17 Garry Kasparov defeats chess-playing computer Deep Blue 4-2

• Feb 19 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
• Feb 21 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit

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

• Feb 23 Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve
• Feb 23 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands
• Feb 24 Cuba downs 2 US planes
• Feb 24 The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
• Feb 25 "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
• Feb 25 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is

• Feb 27 First ever appearance of Pokémon in role-playing video game "Pocket Monsters Red and Green" for Game Boy in Japan
• Feb 27 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India

• Feb 29 Chasing Kenya's 166, the West Indies are dismissed for a dismal 93 in Cricket World Cup at Pune, India; spinner Maurice Odumbe takes 3/15 and fast bowler Rajab Ali 3/17 for Kenya
• Feb 29 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-23 returning from Mir space station
• Feb 29 Serb forces withdraw from Sarajevo, ending the siege after 1,425 days, the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare

• Feb 2 Paul Mescal, Irish actor (Normal People), born in Maynooth, Ireland
• Feb 4 Connie Han, American jazz pianist, born in Los Angeles, California
• Feb 7 Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer and actress, born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
• Feb 9 Jimmy Bennett, American actor (Daddy Day Care; No Ordinary FAmily), born in Seal Beach, California

• Feb 17 Sasha Pieterse, South African actress (Pretty Little Liars), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Feb 19 Ashnikko [Ashton Casey], American rapper and singer, born in Oak Ridge, North Carolina
• Feb 20 Mabel [McVey], English pop singer-songwriter ("Finders Keepers"), born in Málaga, Spain
• Feb 21 Sophie Turner, English actress (Game of Thrones), born in Northampton, England
• Feb 28 Karsten Warholm, Norwegian athlete (Olympic gold 400m hurdles WR 45.94 2021; World C'ship gold 2017, 19), born in Ulsteinvik, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

• Feb 14 Secretary of Defense and former US Senator William Cohen of Maine (56) weds Black Entertainment Television host Janet Langhart (54) at United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
• Feb 15 Chinese actress Gong Li (30) weds Singapore-born businessman Ooi Hoe Seong (46) at Singapore's Registry of Marriages
• Feb 29 Fashion designer Nicole Miller (44) weds Kim Taipale (42) in the office of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

Deaths 1 - 100 of 105

• Feb 1 Clive Burton, British neuropathologist, dies at 54

• Feb 2 Minao Shibata, Japanese composer and musicologist, dies at 79
• Feb 2 Ray McIntire, American chemical engineer, (invented Styrafoam at Dow) dies at 77
• Feb 2 Shamus Culhane, American animator (Fleischer Studios, Disney Studios), dies at 87
• Feb 3 Audrey Meadows [Cotter], American actress (The Honeymooners - "Alice Kramden"; The Jackie Gleason Show), dies of lung cancer at 73
• Feb 3 Brodrick Haldane, Scottish photographer, dies at 83
• Feb 3 Edward Adamson, English artist, 'father of art therapy' and collector, dies at 84
• Feb 3 Tibor Reich, British textile designer (Tibor Ltd), dies at 79
• Feb 3 Wild Jimmy Spruill, American blues guitarist, dies at 61
• Feb 5 Antonio Ruiz Soler, Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer, dies at 74
• Feb 5 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Italian opera conductor, musicologist, pianist and composer, dies at 86
• Feb 5 Peter Pooley, British broadcaster (Newsreel), dies at 84
• Feb 5 W. R. Lee, English language teacher and internationalist, dies at 84
• Feb 6 Guy Madison [Robert Moseley], American actor (Wild Bill Hickok), dies of emphysema at 74
• Feb 6 Ronald Fletcher, British broadcaster (Barbara with Braden, Bomber Harris), dies at 85
• Feb 7 George Trevelyan, British educational pioneer and a founding father of the New Age movement, dies at 89
• Feb 7 Lydia Chukovskaya, Soviet writer and dissident (Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage), dies at 88
• Feb 7 Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
• Feb 7 Tiny Winters [Frederick Gittens], English jazz bassist and singer, dies at 87
• Feb 7 [Isian Kehinde] I. K. Dairo, Nigerian Jùjú musician and academic, dies at 65
• Feb 8 Del Ennis, American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1946, 51, 55; NL RBI leader 1950; Philadelphia Phillies), dies from complications of diabetes at 70
• Feb 8 Derek Worlock, English Roman Catholic Archbishop Liverpool, dies at 76
• Feb 8 Mercer Kennedy Ellington, American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer, dies at 76
• Feb 9 Adolf Galland, German general and WWII flying ace (104 aerial victories for Luftwaffe), dies at 83
• Feb 9 Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist, dies at 106
• Feb 9 Alistair Cameron Crombie, Australian historian of science, dies at 80
• Feb 9 Barry Troyna, English educational sociologist and author (Racism, Education and the State), dies at 44
• Feb 9 Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, British trade unionist, dies at 80
• Feb 9 Gerald Savory, British actor playwright and TV producer (Heart of the Matter), dies at 86
• Feb 9 Neil Franklin, English soccer defender (26 caps; Stoke City, Hull City, Crewe Alexandra) and manager (Colchester United), dies at 74
• Feb 9 Thomas Padmore, British senior civil servant, dies at 86
• Feb 10 Hugh Francis Lamprey, British ecologist, dies at 67
• Feb 11 Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet, commits suicide at 65
• Feb 11 Bob Shaw, Irish sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 64
• Feb 11 Cyril Poole, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 2 x 50; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 74
• Feb 11 Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies
• Feb 11 Phil Regan, American actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88
• Feb 12 Bob Shaw, Northern Irish novelist (b. 1931)
• Feb 12 Roger Omond, South African journalist ("The Apartheid Handbook"), dies at 51
• Feb 13 Daniel Womack, American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and harmonica player, dies at 91
• Feb 13 Martin Balsam, American charaacter actor (Psycho, 12 Angry Men, Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22), dies of a stroke at 76
• Feb 14 Bob Paisley, English football manager (Liverpool), dies at 77
• Feb 14 Eva Hart, British Titanic passenger, one of last living survivors, dies at 91
• Feb 14 Ivan William Hannaford, British sociologist, dies at 64
• Feb 14 Lady Caroline Blackwood, British journalist and writer (The Last of the Duchess), dies at 64
• Feb 14 Taiguara [Chalar da Silva], Brazilian singer and songwriter, dies at 50
• Feb 15 Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian biochemist and statesman, dies at 82
• Feb 15 Margaret Courtenay, Welsh actress, singer and entertainer (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies of cancer at 72
• Feb 15 McLean Stevenson, American actor (M*A*S*H, 1972-75 - "Col. Henry Blake"; Hello Larry), dies of a heart attack at 66
• Feb 15 Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58
• Feb 15 Tommy Rettig, American actor (Jeff's Collie, Lassie), dies of a heart attack at 54
• Feb 16 (Walter) "Brownie" McGhee, American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, dies at 80
• Feb 16 Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47
• Feb 16 Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, American politician and Governor of California (D: 1959-67), dies at 90
• Feb 16 Kenneth Robinson, British politician (influential Minister of Health under Harold Wilson, reformed Health Service), dies at 84
• Feb 16 Roger Bowen, American actor (M*A*S*H (film); The Main Event: What About Bob?: Petulia), dies of a heart attack at 62
• Feb 16 Susan Bosence, British textile designer and blockprinter, dies at 82
• Feb 17 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary, dies at 84
• Feb 17 Evelyn Laye, English actress and singer (Sun Child), dies at 95
• Feb 17 Gus Hardin [Carolyn Ann Blankenship], American country singer, dies at 50
• Feb 17 Hervé Bazin, French writer (Head Against the Wall), dies at 84
• Feb 17 Michel Pablo [Michalis N. Raptis], Chilean-Greek writer and Trotskyist revolutionary (Fourth International), dies at 84
• Feb 18 Brian Daley, writer, dies at 48
• Feb 18 Jack Thieuloy, French writer, dies at 64
• Feb 18 Nicholas Beriozoff, Lithuanian-British dancer, choreographer and ballet master, dies at 89
• Feb 19 Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver, dies at 71
• Feb 19 Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77
• Feb 19 Charles "Charlie O" Finley, American sports entrepreneur (MLB's Kansas City/Oakland A's: NHL's California Golden Seals), dies at 77
• Feb 19 Dorothy Maynor, American soprano and founder (Harlem School of Arts), dies at 85
• Feb 19 Grant Sawyer, US politician, dies at 76
• Feb 19 Madhaviah Krishnan, Indian naturalist and wildlife photographer, dies at 83
• Feb 20 Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, British test pilot (Spitfire), dies at 83
• Feb 20 Michael Wooller, British TV and film producer (Omnibus), dies at 69
• Feb 20 Solomon Asch, Polish-American psychologist, dies at 88
• Feb 20 Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese classical music and film score composer (November Steps; Ran), dies of pneumonia while being treated for bladder cancer at 65
• Feb 20 Walter Charles Marshall, Welsh theoretical physicist (Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1981-89), dies at 63
• Feb 21 H. L. Gold, American sci-fi writer and editor, dies at 81

• Feb 21 Terence Edward Armstrong, British polar geographer, dies at 75
• Feb 22 Helmut Schoen, Germany football coach (manager of West Germany (1964-1978, 1974 World Cup), dies at 80
• Feb 22 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79
• Feb 23 Alan Dawson, American jazz drummer and teacher (Berklee, 1957-75), dies of leukemia at 66
• Feb 23 Freddie Stocks, cricket (cent on debut & wkt on 1st ball, Notts), dies
• Feb 23 Joseph W. Barr, American banker and politician (Secretary of the Treasury), dies at 78
• Feb 24 Anna Larina, Russian revolutionary, wife of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin, dies at 82
• Feb 24 James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
• Feb 24 Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
• Feb 25 Haing S Ngor, Cambodian-American obstetrician, author, refugee and actor (The Killing Fields), murdered at 55
• Feb 25 Marion Farouk Political scientist-Sluglett, dies at 59
• Feb 25 Vehbi Koc, Turkish industrialist (Koç Group) and philanthropist, dies at 94
• Feb 26 Daniel John Cunningham, British physiologist (human breathing control), dies at 76
• Feb 26 Mieczysław Weinberg [Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg], Polish-Soviet composer, dies from Crohn's disease at 77
• Feb 27 Francois Chaumette, French actor (Le Bossu, They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72
• Feb 27 George Ian Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64
• Feb 27 Pat Smythe, English equestrian rider (Olympic bronze team jumps 1956; author children's books), dies from heart disease at 67
• Feb 27 Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1941, 45), dies of lung cancer at 83
• Feb 27 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60
• Feb 27 Vic Janowicz, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1950, Ohio State; NFL: Washington Redskins), dies of cancer at 66
• Feb 28 Daniel Chipenda, Angolan politician and field commander, dies at 64

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