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  • Dagestan, Russia
    Jan, 1996
    First Chechen War

    Conflict in Dagestan

    Dagestan, Russia
    Jan, 1996

    Much larger and more deadly acts of hostility took place in the republic of Dagestan. In particular, the border village of Pervomayskoye was completely destroyed by Russian forces in January 1996 in reaction to the large-scale Chechen hostage taking in Kizlyar in Dagestan (in which more than 2,000 hostages were taken), bringing strong criticism from this hitherto loyal republic and escalating domestic dissatisfaction.




  • Mayibout, Gabon
    Jan, 1996
    Ebola Most Major Outbreaks

    Gabon' Outbreak in 1996

    Mayibout, Gabon
    Jan, 1996

    This occurred in the village of Mayibout 2 and neighboring areas. A chimpanzee found dead in the forest was eaten by villagers hunting for food. Nineteen people involved in the butchery of the animal became ill, and other cases occurred in their family members. These events resulted in the infection of 31 and the death of 21.




  • Stanford, California, U.S.
    Jan, 1996
    Google LLC

    The Beginning of Google

    Stanford, California, U.S.
    Jan, 1996

    Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites. They called this algorithm PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site.




  • Slovenia
    Monday Jan 15, 1996
    Croatian War of Independence

    New UN mission

    Slovenia
    Monday Jan 15, 1996

    The new UN mission was established as the United Nations Transitional Authority for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1037 of 15 January 1996.




  • Prevlaka, Croatia
    Monday Jan 15, 1996
    Croatian War of Independence

    The UNTAES replaced the UNCRO mission

    Prevlaka, Croatia
    Monday Jan 15, 1996

    As the UNTAES replaced the UNCRO mission, Prevlaka peninsula, previously under UNCRO control, was put under control of United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP). The UNMOP was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1038 of 15 January 1996, and terminated on 15 December 2002.




  • Black Sea
    Tuesday Jan 16, 1996
    First Chechen War

    Turkish passenger ship

    Black Sea
    Tuesday Jan 16, 1996

    On 16 January 1996, a Turkish passenger ship carrying 200 Russian passengers was taken over by what were mostly Turkish gunmen who were seeking to publicize the Chechen cause.




  • U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 23, 1996
    Java (programming language)

    Java 1.0

    U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 23, 1996

    On 23 January 1996, Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0, which promised Write Once, Run Anywhere (WORA) functionality, providing no-cost run-times on popular platforms.


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