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 ).

* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

* 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.

Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

* 1996 – Suspected " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.

* 1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.

It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The first official home video releases of Beavis and Butt-Head were two VHS tapes titled There Goes the Neighborhood and Work Sucks !, distributed by Sony Music Video and MTV Home Video in 1996 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

More recently, Bacardi lawyers were influential in the drafting of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act which sought to extend the scope of the United States embargo against Cuba.

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

A similar policy applies to potential donors to the Australian Red Cross ' Blood Service, precluding people who have spent a cumulative time of six months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

The Singapore Red Cross precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of three months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

As of 1999, Health Canada announced a policy to defer individuals from donating blood if they have lived within the United Kingdom for one month or more from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996.

The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

The Swiss Blutspendedienst SRK precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least six months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of commemorative stamps marking the comic-strip centennial in 1996.

On July 11, 1996, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp depicting " Mighty Casey.

Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

In 1996, Destry Rides Again was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

A Doom-based game called Chex Quest was released in 1996 by Ralston Foods as a promotion to increase cereal sales, and the United States Marine Corps released Marine Doom, designed to " teach teamwork, coordination and decision-making ".

* 1996 – Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US $ 500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.

* Flexner, Eleanor, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States ( The Belknap Press, 1996 ( ISBN 978-0-674-10653-6 )).

Osama bin Laden issued two fatwās — in 1996 and then again in 1998 — that Muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries until they withdraw support for Israel and withdraw military forces from Islamic countries.

* 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at-26 ° F (- 32. 2 ° C )

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

By 1995, a billion cubic meters of the gas had been collected and the reserve was US $ 1. 4 billion in debt, prompting the Congress of the United States in 1996 to phase out the reserve.

The resulting " Helium Privatization Act of 1996 " ( Public Law 104 – 273 ) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start emptying the reserve by 2005.