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* 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
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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 ).
* 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 and Motorola
In 1996, STATS, Inc., a major statistical provider to fantasy sports companies, won a court case, along with Motorola, on appeal against the NBA in which the NBA was trying to stop STATS from distributing in game score information via a special wireless device created by Motorola.
In 1996, Motorola updated the standalone core with fully static circuitry drawing only 2 µW in low-power mode, calling it the MC68SEC000.
Motorola ceased production of the HMOS MC68000 and MC68008 in 1996, but its spin-off company, Freescale Semiconductor, is still producing the MC68HC000, MC68HC001, MC68EC000, and MC68SEC000, as well as the MC68302 and MC68306 microcontrollers and later versions of the DragonBall family.
AltiVec was developed between 1996 and 1998 by a collaborative project between Apple, IBM, and Motorola.
To support the RS / 6000 and RS / 6000 SP2 product lines in 1996, IBM had its own design team implement a single-chip version of POWER2, the P2SC (" POWER2 Super Chip "), outside the Apple / IBM / Motorola alliance in IBM's most advanced and dense CMOS-6S process.
Motorola ended production of the 68008 in 1996.
iDEN, the platform which WiDEN upgrades, and the protocol on which it is based, was originally introduced by Motorola in 1993, and launched as a commercial network by Nextel in the United States in September 1996.
Bose had previously sued to protect its " Lifestyle " trademark beginning in 1996 with a success against Motorola and continuing with settlements against New England Stereo, Lifestyle Technologies, Optoma and AMX.
Throughout the 1990s out-of-order execution became more common, and was featured in the IBM / Motorola PowerPC 601 ( 1993 ), Fujitsu / HAL SPARC64 ( 1995 ), Intel Pentium Pro ( 1995 ), MIPS R10000 ( 1996 ), HP PA-8000 ( 1996 ), AMD K5 ( 1996 ) and DEC Alpha 21264 ( 1998 ).
The company was founded in 1995, and Motorola acquired 49 % of the company in 1996.
He debuted a Ford Mustang Cobra R in Motorola Cup competition in 1996 with teammate Nick Longhi and competed part-time with that car in the 1997 and 1998 seasons.
The first Motorola model to support the clamshell design was the StarTAC, created in 1996, although General Telephone & Electronics ( GTE ) held the trademark since the 1970s for its Flip Phone ( one of the first small hand-held electronic phones ), until 1993.
The team lasted 16 years, under the sponsorship of 7-Eleven through 1990 and then Motorola from 1990 through 1996.
After both Kiefel and Hampsten stunningly won stages during the Giro, becoming the first American stage winners ever at a Grand Tour, 7-Eleven was invited to the 1986 Tour de France and became one of the major cycling teams for the next decade, under the sponsorship of Southland through 1990 and then Motorola through 1996.
Ochowicz disbanded the team after the 1996 season, when Motorola decided to discontinue sponsorship.
His first success at the top level came in 1996, when Stricker notched two victories ( Kemper Open, Motorola Western Open ) and seven top ten finishes on his way to finishing fourth on the 1996 PGA Tour money list.
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The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Developed original resolution and unification based first order theorem proving, co-editor of the " Handbook of Automated Reasoning ", recipient of the Herbrand Award 1996
The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.
In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.
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.
The first round of mass privatisation finally began in January 1996, and auctions began toward the end of that year.
On the other hand, in 1995 he toured in Japan with Kurtalan Ekspres, leading to Live In Japan ( 1996 ), his first and only live album.
In 1996, a song in Breton represented France in the 41st Eurovision Song Contest, the first time in history that France had a song without a word in French.
Cameroon's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.
* On April 18, 1996, there was a first mutiny by 200 – 300 soldiers who claimed that they had not received their wage since 1992 – 1993.
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It was their first Division III victory since 1996.
Established in 1996, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies became the first independent Jewish seminary to be established on the west coast.
It was his first time playing third base since 1996.
In 1996, Elwes made his first television appearance as David Lookner on the sitcom Seinfeld.
In 1996, programmer Kevin Horton released the first homebrew game for the ColecoVision, a Tetris clone entitled Kevtris .< ref name =" kevtris ">
Digital Ocean, Inc. an OEM licensee of the Apple Newton, offered the Seahorse product, which integrated the Newton handheld computer, an AMPS / CDPD handset / modem along with a web browser in 1996, winning the CTIA's hardware product of the year award as a smartphone, arguably the world's first.
In the August race at Michigan International Speedway, Earnhardt led laps late in the race and nearly pulled off his first win on a non-restrictor plate track since 1996.
The first clash occurred in 1996 after a nearly two-months stand-off.
Star receiver Michael Irvin was suspended by the league for the first five games of 1996 following a drug-related arrest ; he came back after the Cowboys started the season 2-3 ; they finished 10-6 and won the NFC East title, but were eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs 26-17 by the second-year Carolina Panthers.
The Cowboys defeated the Eagles for the first Cowboys ' post-season win since the 1996 season, ending a streak of six consecutive NFL post-season losses.
In 1996 TEN hosted a first of its kind, nationally participated in " online tournament " rewarding the champions with cash and prizes sparking an immediate surge in online gaming.
1996 saw the first Web site dedicated to deism with the WUD site Deism. com.
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