In 1996 PACCAR acquired DAF Trucks.

Fifteen years later, in 1996, they acquired Netherlands-based DAF Trucks, which was in financial difficulties at the time.

After the takeover of Leyland Trucks by PACCAR in 1998, independent Foden production ceased, and was replaced by models of DAF Trucks rebadged as Fodens ( DAF Trucks having been acquired by PACCAR in 1996 ).

However, it soon started losing money due to over-expansion, went bankrupt on July 15, 1996, and was liquidated.

1996 for Earnhardt started just as it had done in 1993 – he dominated Speedweeks only to finish second in the Daytona 500 to Dale Jarrett for a second time.

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 project was started by Alex Jarrett in February 1996 because he " liked the idea of visiting a location represented by a round number such as 43 ° 00 ' 00 " N 72 ° 00 ' 00 " W. What would be there?

The students — Peter Unold, Claus Leth Gregersen and Allan Ove Kjeldbjerg — started development in November 1995 ; the first playable version was released in January, 1996, with bugfixing and small enhancements until April.

In 1996, Orchises Press, a small publishing house in Virginia, started the process to publish " Hapworth " in book form.

Vodacom Lesotho started operating in 1996 with the Government of Lesotho as a shareholder through its stake in Lesotho Telecommunications Corporation.

* The Calgary Corpus dating back to 1987 is no longer widely used due to its small size, although Leonid A. Broukhis still maintains The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge, which started in 1996.

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ).

* 1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.

After the Federal criminal investigation ended in 1996, Zimmermann and his team started a company to produce new versions of PGP encryption.

The team started having training camp at Lehigh in 1996.

Kurzweil started Kurzweil Educational Systems in 1996 to develop new pattern-recognition-based computer technologies to help people with disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia and ADD in school.

A testing initiative was started in 1996.

Super-Kamiokande started operation in 1996.

The party started collecting petitions in 1995 for the 1996 election.

In 1996, the Unification Church started a $ 10-million project called Tiempos Del Mundo, a newspaper in Spanish circulating in 16 countries of Latin America, " a newspaper for half a Hemisphere ", as The New York Times called it.

The UNL Programme started in 1996, as an initiative of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.

In 1986, WHO started it global programme on the growing problem of HIV / AIDS, followed two years later by additional attention on preventing discrimination against sufferers and UNAIDS was formed in 1996.

1996 ( MCMXCVI ) was a leap year that started on a Monday.

The Australian ISP BigPond employed this system when it started cable modem tests in 1996.

The French approval process started in 1996 with concerns about taurine, a normal body constituent and also naturally present in the human diet ( e. g., scallops, fish, poultry ).

In 1996, Kauffman started BiosGroup, a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based for-profit company that applied complex systems methodology to business problems.

In the 1996 / 1997 season, the Dutch women's team started using the skates with great success.

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.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

The are two senior clubs, the Traralgon Maroons ( which briefly competed in the Victorian Football League between 1996 – 1997 ) currently competing in the Gippsland Football League and Traralgon-Tyers United competing in the North Gippsland Football League.

In 1996 it acquired Novell WordPerfect and started competing with the thought of being " Pepsi to Microsoft's Coke " as Microsoft Word was the top-used word processing software at the time.

The 1996 Act requires that intercarrier compensation rates among competing local exchange carriers ( CLECs ) be based on the “ additional costs of terminating such calls .” However, the framework created by the 1996 Act set different intercarrier compensation rates for services that were not competing at that time but do compete today.

Even though he retired from Pro Mountain biking in 1996, he continued competing in endurance competitions like the XTERRA Triathlon, and regular road triathlons.

At at time when competing services like CompuServe were charging for each minute of access ( which varied based on modem speeds and added extra charges for premium services ), beginning in 1996, AOL priced its service at $ 19. 95 per month of unlimited use of basic tier services.

The 19th century notion that they depict dancers is now largely discredited, and these monuments, dating to the earliest period of occupation at the site ( Monte Albán I ), are now seen to clearly represent tortured, sacrificed war prisoners, some identified by name, and may depict leaders of competing centers and villages captured by Monte Albán ( Marcus and Flannery 1996 ; Blanton et al.

From 1996 to 2005 they were one of three Australian teams competing in the Super 12 competition, alongside the New South Wales Waratahs and the ACT Brumbies.

However, Kipketer was not a full Danish citizen, and in 1996 the International Olympic Committee disallowed him from competing for Denmark in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA.

She was first acknowledged by name in April 1996 as Debra McMichael, the real-life wife of Nitro announcer Steve " Mongo " McMichael, and soon began appearing regularly as a valet for her husband as he transitioned to competing as a wrestler.

Since Ireland began competing in international rugby league in 1995, it has participated in the Emerging Nations Tournament ( 1995 ), Super League World Nines ( 1996 ), World Cup ( 2000 and 2008 ), European Nations Cup ( since 2003 ) and Victory Cup ( 2004 ).

This category concerns German tennis players competing for unified Germany, at the Summer Olympics in 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1924, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008.

Her first major meet for Russia was the European Championships in 1996 where she won gold on balance beam, beating such renowned gymnasts as Gina Gogean and former teammate Svetlana Boguinskaya, who was now competing for Belarus.

Following presentation of the petition and a speech by one of the founders, Ann Pearston, to the 1996 Labour Party conference, the new Labour government of Tony Blair introduced the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997, which also banned private ownership of. 22 rimfire handguns which effectivly removed the UK national team from having any future possibilty of competing well in international pistol shooting competitions.

As United had done the double, Evans and his exciting young team would be competing in the 1996 – 97 European Cup Winners ' Cup.

The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere was founded in 1996, the result of a merger between two competing facilities, The Nashville Zoo and Grassmere Wildlife Park ( which was located at the zoo's present location ).

In 1996, when the Sands Hotel was having trouble competing with the newer resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, Adelson imploded it to make room for The Venetian ( Las Vegas ).

While Radio AAHS would bring some success to WWTC, it would soon face competition from Disneydespite being a marketing partner for Radio AAHS, they would launch their own competing network, Radio Disney, on November 18, 1996.

At its height in 1996, TBBS could support more simultaneous users at full speed on less hardware than any competing BBS product.