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* 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349.
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According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.
The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).
* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )
The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
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On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.
* 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.
In 1996, Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden moved to Afghanistan upon the invitation of the Northern Alliance leader Abdur Rabb ur Rasool Sayyaf.
In October 2000, terrorists used C-4 to attack the USS Cole, killing 17 sailors In 1996, terrorists used C-4 to blow up the Khobar Towers U. S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
The most recent Purple Hearts presented to civilians occurred after the terrorist attacks at Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, in 1996 — about 40 U. S. civil service employees received the award for their injuries.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.
Saudi Arabia ratified the Convention in 1996, with a reservation ' with respect to all such articles as are in conflict with the provisions of Islamic law ' and considers it to be a valid source of domestic law.
: Bahrain ( 1996 – 2000 ); Iran ( 1948 – 1951, 1953 – 1979 ); Iraq ; Kuwait ; Lebanon ; Oman ( 1996 – 2000 ); Qatar ( 1996 – 2009 ); Saudi Arabia ; Syria ; United Arab Emirates ; and Yemen.
The airline reverted back to its abbreviated English brand name Saudia ( used from 1972 to 1996 ) from Saudi Arabian Airlines ( historic name in use until 1971 and reintroduced in 1997 ) on 29 May 2012, the name was changed to celebrate the company's entry into the SkyTeam airline alliance on that day, and it was a part of a larger rebranding initiative.
He subsequently learned of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and investigated the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen.
He was directly involved in the investigation into the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.
Mabus served as the 60th Governor of the U. S. state of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 and as United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996.
Mabus was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and served from 1994 to 1996.
In 1996 the Saudi government financed a new translation " the Hilali-Khan Qur ' an " which was distributed free world wide by the Saudi's government's as it was in line with their particular interpretation.
The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, located near the national oil company ( Saudi Aramco ) headquarters of Dhahran on June 25, 1996.
On June 25, 1996, al-Qaeda terrorists bombed the Khobar Towers, a complex in Saudi Arabia where members of the U. S. military were being housed, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring over 300.
For instance, the Taliban government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, which lasted from 1996 to 2001, was recognized by only Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, while far more had recognized the government of ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani.
In 1996, the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force housing complex, was bombed by ِ Al Kaida-talban militants, killing 19 US servicemen and one Saudi local.
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