February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
Day of death February 14, 1996
The temperature on February 14, 1996 was between -1.7 °C and 0.5 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
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February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
October 2 » Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
October 7 » Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
November 20 » A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
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