96

Ninety-Six or 96 is a number which may refer to:

In history

• Any of the following years:
  • 96
  • 96 BC
  • 1996

In geography

• Ninety Six, South Carolina
• Ninety Six District, a historical judicial and military district of colonial America which extended through North and South Carolina
• Ninety Six National Historic Site, in Ninety Six, South Carolina, derives its name from the original settlement's distance in miles from a Cherokee village in the Blue Ridge Mountains

In music

• The song “96 Tears" by garage rock band Question Mark and the Mysterians
• "96", a song by Uverworld, a Japanese band.
• "96 Quite Bitter Beings", a song recorded by rock band CKY

In sports

• The 2000 World Series, between the New York Yankees and New York Mets was the 96th Fall Classic
• Bobby Labonte's current number in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
• Bill Voiselle, a pitcher for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, and Chicago Cubs, wore #96 — thus his nickname was "Ninety Six"
• Hannover 96, a German football club nicknamed "96"

In science

• The atomic number of curium, an actinide.
• In astronomy:
  • Messier 96, a magnitude 10.5 spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo
  • The New General Catalogue object NGC 96, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
  • The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began in July 94 and ended in August 1374
  • The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began in May 432 and ended in June 1712

In other fields

• An Australian soap opera, Number 96.
• Class of '96 was a short-lived Fox drama series which aired in 1993
• 96 dpi, the standard resolution of the monitor of an IBM-compatible computer running Microsoft Windows
• The number of surat Al-Alaq in the Qur'an
• According to Gurdjieff's Fourth Way symbolism, the number of the Moon level
• The 96th United States Congress met January 1979 to January 1981 during the last two years of President Jimmy Carter's administration
• The 96th Infantry Division (United States) was a unit of the United States Army in World War II
• German submarine U-96, a German U-boat during World War II and subject of the film Das Boot
• The Saab 96 car produced from 1960 to 1966
• STS-96 Space Shuttle Discovery Mission launched May 27, 1999
• Mars 96 was a Russian orbiter launched in 1996
• The designation of American Interstate 96, a freeway in Michigan
• U.S. Route 96 is a north-south route in Texas
• Four New York City Subway stops along 96th Street in Manhattan:
  • 96th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line), serving the 1, ​2, and ​3 trains
  • 96th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), serving the A, ​B, and ​C trains
  • 96th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), serving the 4, ​6, and <6> trains
  • 96th Street (IND Second Avenue Line); under construction
• 96th Street (Manhattan)