About the day » Tuesday January 2, 1996Calender converter

• Henrik Kornelis Huizenga

• Armor Burton Larson (78), Arnegard, Mckenzie, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Alice Schwarz (87)
• Charlie STEHLE STALEY (84), Rosenberg, Fort Bend, Texas (USA)
• Arendina Catharina Meutstege (89), Stad Delden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Andries Schippers (93)
• Arend Pasman (92)
• Aaf Kok (88), Volendam
• Antonius Maria van den Hoogen (89), Wanroij
• Antonius van Eldijk (69), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Chester John Latlippe (79), Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

• 1977 » Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
• 1979 » Jonathan Greening English footballer
• 1981 » Maxi Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 » Kate Bosworth, American actress
• 1987 » Robert Milsom, English footballer
• 1988 » Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
• 1992 » Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
• 1992 » Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentinian footballer, goalkeeper
• 1998 » Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer

• 1990 » Alan Hale Jr., American film and television actor (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician; 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French lawyer and businessman (b. 1915)
• 1995 » Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1995 » Siad Barre, Somalian general and politician; 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
• 1999 » Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 2000 » Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Patrick O'Brian, English author and translator (b. 1914)
• 2001 » William P. Rogers, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
• January 8 » An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
• February 29 » Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
• March 4 » A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
• July 5 » Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
• July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
• September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.

The temperature on January 2, 1996 was between -3.9 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.