93, pp. 2686 – 2689, April 1996.

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 ).

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player, and archivist ( d. 1996 )

* 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

* 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim ( d. 1996 )

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Antonia Lottner, German tennis player

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1941 – Ron Brown, American politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer

* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral ( b. 1939 )

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 ).

During the existence of the separatist republic, the city was renamed Dzokhar-Ghala in 1996, and Chechen separatists sometimes continue refer to the city as Dzhokhar or Djohar (, ); it was named so after Dzhokhar Dudaev, the first president of the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

In April 1996, following the assassination of his predecessor Dzhokhar Dudayev, he became an Acting President.

Aslan Maskhadov's separatist foreign ministry condemned the attack as a " Russian terrorist attack ", comparing it to the 1996 attack that killed Dzhokhar Dudayev.

Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudaev (; ; February 15, 1944 – April 21, 1996 ) was a Soviet Air Force general and a Chechen leader, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, a breakaway state in the North Caucasus.

After the Soviet withdrawal, between 1992 and 1996, he was minister of defense in the new government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and acted as its military leader in the civil war against competing militias around Kabul.

However, KHAD has continued to operate after the fall of the Soviet backed government in 1992 and acted as the intelligence arm of the United Front or " Northern Alliance " during the Civil war in Afghanistan ( 1996 – 2001 ).

* German A. Goncharov, " American and Soviet H-bomb development programmes: historical background ," Physics-Uspekhi 39: 10 ( 1996 ): 1033 – 1044.

Following the " peace dividend " after the fall of the Soviet bloc, the company sold its defense and aerospace business, including what was once North American Aviation and Rocketdyne, to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in December 1996.

* September 18 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet Armenian scientist ( d. 1996 )

Experimental prototypes were first flown on Soviet spacecraft and, most recently, in 1996, on the Japanese Space Flyer Unit, which demonstrated the successful operation of a quasi-steady pulsed MPD thruster in space.

The collapse of the Soviet planned economy and the transition to market economy resulted in catastrophic declines in GDP of about 45 % during the 1990 – 1996 period and poverty in the region had increased more than tenfold.

In 1996, Russia launched Mars 96, its first interplanetary mission since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however it failed to depart Earth orbit.

* Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin ( 1910 – 1996 ), Soviet / Russian geologist, tectonician, and geophysicist

According to a 1996 radio documentary by the Russian Service of Radio Liberty, the MGB was reduced from being a ministry to a committee because Soviet leaders feared what the MGB might do if the purges were to resume.

In a 1996 interview, Ch ' en's brother, Li-fu, claimed that the reason behind Chiang Kai-shek acceptance was the need to have Soviet support during a period when his hold over the KMT was not guaranteed.

On June 1, 1996, Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation when it sent the last of its 1, 900 strategic nuclear warheads it had inherited from the Soviet Union to Russia for dismantling.

* Rummel, R. J. ( 1996 ) Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917.

The last underground test by the United States was in 1992, the Soviet Union in 1990, the United Kingdom in 1991, and both France and China continued testing until 1996.

On 15 April 1996 Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree giving the Soviet flag ( called the Victory Banner, after the banner that was raised above the Reichstag on 1 May 1945 ) status similar to that of the national flag.

By June 1996 when Perry traveled to Ukraine to observe the completion of that country's transfer of nuclear warheads to Russia, the only former Soviet missiles still outside of Russia were in Belarus.

The most famous claimed results from these years were the description of " a big crane " at a Soviet nuclear research facility by Pat Price ( Kress 1977 / 1999, Targ 1996 ) and Joseph McMoneagle, a description of a new class of Soviet strategic submarine by a team of three viewers which included McMoneagle ,( Smith 2005, McMoneagle 2002 ) and Rosemary Smith's location of a downed Soviet bomber in Africa.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert was released in 1996 and set in a alternate universe where the Soviet Union wages war with the Allied West.

Another FBI agent, Earl Edwin Pitts, was arrested in 1996 under and for spying for the Soviet Union and later for the Russian Federation.

The Dyna-Flite line consisted of a variety of subjects, including many WWII airplanes ( including a " WWII Historical Series " in 1996 with new colors ), modern jets both from the US, Europe and the Soviet Union, a biplane and a number of helicopters.

Other roles have included the mysterious, schizophrenic mother of a teenager in boarding school in On My Own ( 1993 ), the lifelong Australian Communist Party member reacting to the downfall of the Soviet Union in Children of the Revolution ( 1996 ), two more Allen films, Deconstructing Harry ( 1997 ) and Celebrity ( 1998 ), a highly-strung White House chief of staff in Absolute Power ( 1997 ), a supportive mother in Swimming Upstream ( 2003 ) and supporting roles in two 2006 films, The Break-Up and Marie-Antoinette.

In 1996, Soviet pilot Captain Igor Mentyukov claimed that, at 65, 000 feet ( 19, 812 meters ) altitude, under orders to ram the intruder, he had caught the U-2 in the slipstream of his unarmed Sukhoi Su-9, causing the U-2 to flip over and break its wings.