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* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
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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 ).
1996 and Provisional
With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.
* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
In 1996, the Provisional IRA attacked an alternate area of Greater London in the 1996 Docklands bombing, resulting in two deaths, 39 other casualties and £ 85 million worth of damage.
The party refused to join the Provisional Legislative Council established in December 1996 in protest of its formation.
Nevertheless, Fung accepted a number of appointments from the Chinese government, joined the Preparatory Committee for the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and while he voted against the setting up of the Provisional Legco in 1996 in the Preparatory Committee, he ( and other ADPL members ) joined the provisional body eventually.
The Provisional Legco was set up in 1996 by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to serve as a provisional legislature of Hong Kong, after the proposal package of electoral changes for the 1995 Legislative Council elections that was deemed unconstitutional by the PRC was passed in the Legislative Council.
The 60-member Provisional Legislative Council was elected in 1996 by block vote by the 400 member Selection Committee, an electoral college handpicked by the PRC.
* Friday 9 February 1996: One hour after a statement ending their ceasefire, the Provisional IRA detonated a large lorry bomb near South Quay DLR station in the London Docklands, killing two people, injuring 40, and causing £ 150 million worth of damage.
Sinn Féin's Pat Doherty also used the show in 1996 to deny the involvement of the Provisional IRA in the murder of Garda Jerry McCabe.
The devastation left by the Provisional Irish Republican Army | IRA 1996 Manchester bombing | bombing
The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) on 15 June 1996 in Manchester, England.
On 7 October, 1996 the Provisional Irish Republican Army penetrated the heavily fortified base to detonate two car bombs.
When the Provisional IRA blew up the Arndale shopping centre in the 1996 Manchester bombing one of the few things to survive unscathed was a Victorian pillar box dating from 1887 ( A type A Jubilee pillar ).
) Julius Maada Bio ( born May 12, 1964 ) is a Sierra Leonean politician who was the military Head of State of Sierra Leone from January 16, 1996 to March 29, 1996 under the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) military junta government.
After the 1996 Manchester bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Manchester, trading space in Lewis's was rented to Marks & Spencer and other smaller retailers displaced following heavy damage to the Corn Exchange.
1996 and Irish
* 1996 – Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
* 1996 – Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).
A 70-page Natural Law Party paper was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments.
It is named after Dromore ( Irish: Druim Moir ), County Down, Northern Ireland, with whom it has been twinned since 1996.
In 1993, Lydon worked on his memoirs, first published in 1995 as Rotten-No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, and in 1996 he regrouped with Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook for the Sex Pistols ' Filthy Lucre Tour.
In 1996, McCaffrey sold the motion picture rights to an Irish company, Zyntopo Teoranta, who entered into a co-production agreement with Alliance Atlantis, covering development including advanced 3-D animation and compositing effects for television budgets.
TG4 launched on 31 October 1996 as a free-to-air public service broadcaster that targets Irish language viewers.
In 1996, along with Beau St. Clair, Brosnan formed Irish DreamTime, a Los Angeles-based production company.
He also presided over a successful Irish Presidency of the European Union in 1996 and helped finalise the Stability and Growth Pact, which establishes macroeconomic parameters for countries participating in the single European currency, the euro.
Bruton was the fifth Irish leader to address a joint session of the United States Congress on 11 September 1996, as only the 30th head of state or government of an EU country to do so since 1945.
* Boland, F, Diminished Responsibility as a Defence in Irish Law: Past English Mistakes and Future Irish Directions, ( 1996 ) 5 Irish Criminal Law Journal 19.
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