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1996-1-20
WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format
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1996
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WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format
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1/1 - "After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin"
1/1 - Curacao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte)
1/4 - Father opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances
1/5 - Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement
1/5 - Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba
1/5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1/6 - Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1/7 - "16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000"
1/7 - Fool Moon closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after * performances
1/7 - Crazy after You closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 perfs
1/8 - Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
1/8 - For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1/9 - "First episode of ""Third Rock from the Sun"" screened on NBC"
1/10 - Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
1/10 - Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1/11 - "Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space"
1/11 - Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1/12 - Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)
1/14 - Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions
1/14 - Swinging On a Star closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 97 perfs
1/14 - Holiday closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
1/17 - The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1/18 - Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
1/19 - NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix
1/20 - WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format
1/20 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1/20 - Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup
1/20 - 46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston
1/21 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1/21 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
1/23 - The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1/23 - "Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test NZ v Zim"
1/26 - "Les Miserables, opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg"
1/27 - "Colonel Ibrahim Barﾃｩ Maﾃｯnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup."
1/27 - Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana v Jamaica at Kingston
1/27 - Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
1/27 - Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day
1/27 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1/27 - Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop
1/27 - 70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)
1/27 - "15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies"
1/28 - "Super Bowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe Super Bowl MVP:"
1/28 - 84th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats M Chang (62 64 26 62)
1/28 - Hello Dolly! closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 118 perfs
1/29 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1/29 - Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
1/29 - "6,138th performance of ""Cats"" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, ""A Chorus Line"""
1/29 - "La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire."
1/30 - "Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit."