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.

Mozambique is an exception-although English is widely spoken there, it is a former Portuguese colony which joined the Commonwealth in 1996.

Similarly, in early 1996 Mozambique joined its Anglophone neighbors in the Commonwealth.

The Hawke / Keating governments of 1983 – 1996 pursued economic policies and restructuring such as floating the Australian dollar in 1983, reducing tariffs on imports, taxation reforms, moving from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, privatisation of publicly-owned companies such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and deregulation of the banking system.

* R. Derek Wood, ' The Treaty of Nanking: Form and the Foreign Office, 1842-1843 ', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History ( London ) 24 ( May 1996 ), 181-196.

* with Paige Sullivan, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Documents, Data, and Analysis, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe ( 1996 ), ISBN 1-56324-637-6

It won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker prize.

At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. She also won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Champion in the 400 m event.

In 1996 Telstra recorded the largest profit in Australian corporate history, some $ 3. 8 billion and was partly privatised in November 1997 through sale by the Commonwealth of around 33. 3 % of its shareholding.

Under the nominally centre-left Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1996, the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating governments pursued many economic policies associated with economic rationalism, such as floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, heavy restrictions on union activities including on strike action and pattern bargaining, the privatisation of government run services and enterprises such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and wholesale deregulation of the banking system.

Prior to 1996, the Freedom was only open to British or Commonwealth Citizens over 21 years of age and of good character.

Susan Kelly, author of the 1996 book The Boston Stranglers, accessed the files of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts " Strangler Bureau ".

In 1996, Abramoff and his lobbying firm had as many as 36 contacts with Hasting's office, resulting in as many as 85. 57 billed hours regarding the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

He gained an MA in Imperial and Commonwealth Studies from King's College London in 1996 and became a teacher.

* 1996: Former federal Liberal minister Peter Nixon heads Commonwealth state inquiry into Tasmanian economy

The arena was a key part of Manchester's bids to host the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000 and was eventually used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

He was parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1994 to 1996, and then to the Secretary of State for Health, from 1996 to 1997.

" Bishop was dropped from Health and moved to Urban and Regional Strategy ( 1994 ), and then later as Shadow Minister for Privatisation and Commonwealth / State Relations ( 1995 – 1996 ).

Between 1991 and 1996 the Australian government fully privatised Commonwealth Bank.

The goalie was part of the double winning Olympic team in 1996 and 2000 ( Hockey at the 2000 Summer Olympics ) along with the gold medal winning team in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

It hosted track cycling events in the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the Revolution series and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships a record three times-in 1996, 2000 and 2008.

* In 1996, The Commonwealth Fund received $ 1. 7 million from the Health Services Improvement Fund with a mandate to use the funds to improve health care coverage, access, and quality in the New York City greater metropolitan region.

Fraser has also served as the editor for many monarchical biographies, including those featured in the Kings and Queens of England and Royal History of England series, and, in 1996, she also published a book entitled The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605, which won both the St Louis Literary Award and the Crime Writers ' Association ( CWA ) Non-Fiction Gold Dagger.

* Crime Writers ' Association Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction ( 1996 ), for her book The Gunpowder Plot.

* One of The Writers ' Best Albums ( Everything Must Go ) of 1996 – The Daily Telegraph

* Writers ' Best Album ( Everything Must Go ) of 1996 – Melody Maker

* Readers ' Band of 1996 ( Runner Up ) and Writers ' Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) – NME

* Writers ' Best Live Band of 1996 – NME Brat Award

* Writers ' Best Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) – Vox

* Writers ' Best Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) – The Sunday Times

* Writers ' Best Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) – Sky

* Writers ' Best Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) and Readers ' Best Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) – Select

* Writers ' Best Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) – Music Week

* One of Writers ' Top Ten Albums ( Everything Must Go ) of 1996 – Metal Hammer

* Writers ' Album ( Everything Must Go ) of 1996 ( Runner Up ) – Kerrang!

* One of Writers ' Top Five Albums ( Everything Must Go ) of 1996 – The Independent on Sunday

* Writers ' Best Album ( Everything Must Go ) of 1996 – The Guardian

Francis is the only three-time recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel, winning for Forfeit in 1970, Whip Hand in 1981, and Come To Grief in 1996.

She served as Alberta representative to the Board of Governors of the Canadian Conference of the Arts ( 1996 – 2000 ). She is a member of the Writers ’ Union of Canada, the Writers ’ Guild of Alberta, the Saskatchewan Writers ’ Guild and PEN.

*" Slow Learners " in Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories edited by Patrick Merla, 1996

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

Cronenberg received the Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for Crash.

* Kyoto Prize, 1996

Kroto, Curl, and Smalley were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their roles in the discovery of this class of molecules.

Sir Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckyballs commented: " This most exciting breakthrough provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has, as I long suspected, existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy.

In 1996 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Fullerenes were discovered in 1985 by Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley, and Robert Curl, who together won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .< ref >

Charles Porter's photograph of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.

The photo, taken by utility company employee Charles H. Porter IV, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene (" buckyballs "), and was a leading advocate of nanotechnology and its many applications, including its use in creating strong but lightweight materials as well as its potential to fight cancer.

* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1996

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene ( with Richard Smalley, also of Rice University, and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex ).

* 1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* January 29 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* December 19 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1996 )

* May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* July 20 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1996 )

** Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1996 )

* Matthews received the Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 1996 for this work ( see list ).

He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former prime minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as president after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election.

Along with José Ramos-Horta, he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for work " towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.

Bishop Belo's labours on behalf of the East Timorese and in pursuit of peace and reconciliation were internationally recognised when, along with José Ramos-Horta, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1996.

“ The Nobel Lecture ,” given by The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1996, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Titular bishop of Lorium and Apostolic Administrator of Dili ( East Timor ): Oslo, December 10, 1996.