As of 1996, various lustration laws of varying scope were implemented in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, the Baltic States ( Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia ), Germany, Poland, and Romania.

Zafy eventually won the power he sought after but suffered impeachment at the hands of the disenfranchised parliament in 1996 for violating the constitution by refusing to promulgate specific laws.

Spaeth ( 1996 ) believes Ceres may have been included in the sacrificial dedication, because she is closely identified with Tellus and " bears the laws " of marriage.

In 1996 residents of the town voted to liberalize the laws and the sales of wine coolers and beer were permitted in the town's grocery stores.

Romer v. Evans, 517 U. S. 620 ( 1996 ), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with civil rights and state laws.

In 1995 and 1996, the Supreme Court of the Philippines granted an exception to laws regarding marriage to a practicing Jehovah's Witness because enforcement of those laws would have inhibited free exercise of religious beliefs.

Because WebTV utilized strong encryption, upon launch in 1996, WebTV was classified as munitions ( a military weapon ) by the United States government and was therefore barred from export under United States security laws at the time.

" He is also the author of What's Right ( 1996 ) and How We Got Here ( 2000 ), a history of the 1970s, which " framed the 1970s in the shadow of World War II and Vietnam, suggesting, ' The turmoil of the 1970s should be understood ... as the rebellion of an unmilitary people against institutions and laws formed by a century of war and the preparation for war.

Another very notable private member's bill was the Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996, which deprived the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island legislatures of the power to make laws permitting euthanasia.

The Australian Electoral Commission considers the current DLP to be legally the same as the earlier DLP, and so the party was not affected by laws from the John Howard era ( 1996 – 2007 ) which deregistered parties which had never had a parliamentary presence and prohibited party names that include words from another party's name.

Prior to 1996, the federal government did not define marriage ; any marriage recognized by a state was recognized by the federal government, even if that marriage was not recognized by one or more other states ( as was the case with interracial marriage before 1967 due to anti-miscegenation laws ).

In 1996, McVay spoke out against Internet hate crime laws in Canada in front of a committee of the Canadian Parliament, stating that it is better to address the false claims of Holocaust deniers, rather than to censor them.

In 1996 the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) indicted him for crimes committed by troops under his command against Bosniaks in central Bosnia, particularly the Lašva valley, including grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war and crimes against humanity.

This method of selection was subsequently ruled illegal in January 1996 as it breached sex discrimination laws.

This method of selection was declared unlawful in January 1996 as it breached sex discrimination laws.

During the latter half of the 20th century there were only two incidents in which men holding licensed firearms went on shooting sprees and killed on a large scale, the Hungerford massacre of 1987 and the Dunblane school massacre of 1996 ; each led to strong public and political demands to restrict firearm use, and tightening of laws.

These laws were largely aligned under the 1996 National Agreement on Firearms.

As in 1996, the federal government urged state governments to review handgun laws, and amended legislation was adopted in all states and territories.

Before 1996, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia all had different laws, in Queensland long guns were not registered ; however, the owners of firearms were required to be licenced from 1988, and licences were only introduced for long guns in Tasmania in 1991.

Following the Port Arthur massacre, the Howard Government ( 1996 – 2007 ), with strong media and public support, introduced uniform gun laws with the cooperation of all the states.

However, the gun laws have been a source of friction between the National Party and the Liberal Party, who together formed the coalition federal government from 1996 to 2007.

* C R Chapman & P M Litton, Marriage laws, rites, records and customs, Lochin Publishing, 1996

Though this resulted in stirring controversy, opposition to the new laws was overcome by media reporting of the massacre and mounting public opinion in the wake of the shootings ( see Gun politics in Australia for more information on the 1996 legislation ).

After " Super 8 " ( 1994 RCA-BMG Music Spain ) the group produced albums which caught on quickly in the Spanish indie scene, including " Pop " ( 1996 RCA-BMG Music Spain ), " Una semana en el motor de un autobús " ( A week in the engine of a bus, 1998 RCA-BMG Music Spain ), " Unidad de Desplazamiento " ( Movement unit, 2000 RCA-BMG Music Spain ), " Encuentro con entidades " ( Meeting with entities, 2002 RCA-BMG Music Spain ) and " Los Planetas contra la ley la gravedad " ( Los Planetas against the laws of gravity, 2004 RCA-BMG Music Spain ).

The requirement for anti-circumvention laws was globalized in 1996 with the creation of the WIPO Copyright Treaty.

* 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.

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.

During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996, he was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge where a bomb had been planted.

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.

It has also been in a supranational union with Russia since 2 April 1996, although this has had little practical effect.

The IMF granted standby credit in September 1995, but Belarus has fallen off the program and did not receive the second tranche of funding, which had been scheduled for regular intervals throughout 1996.

This was their second, having also had one in 1996, which ran for two series on CBBC, The Children's Channel, and Fox Kids.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

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.

In 1996 Michel Brunet had unearthed a hominid jaw which he named Australopithecus bahrelghazali, and unofficially dubbed Abel.

Salary arrears, labor unrest, and unequal treatment of military officers from different ethnic groups had also been among the causes of the three mutinies against the Patassé government in 1996 and 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.

Croatia has had an uneven record in these areas between 1996 and 1999 during the right-wing HDZ government, inhibiting its relations with the European Union and the U. S. Improvement in these areas severely hindered the advance of Croatia's prospects for further Euro-Atlantic integration.

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.

In a 1996 New York Magazine piece on women in rock music, it was noted that Love " had the ambition most people would associate with a male rock star ... one thing you have to admire her for is that she refuses — just refuses — to be overlooked in any way.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

As in 1996, though, the team's pitchers struggled and had a 5. 25 ERA, and the Rockies could not improve upon their finish from the previous season.

Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.

By 1996, other engineers had joined in, because it was clear that Cygwin would be a useful way to provide Cygnus ' embedded tools hosted on Windows systems ( the previous strategy had been to use DJGPP ).

According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Worried that their goodbye had been too low-key and had disregarded their home fans, the band performed the Farewell to the World concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on 24 November 1996, which raised funds for the Sydney Children's Hospital.

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute and The New England Journal of Medicine published articles in 1996 about a trial that was conducted to determine if vitamin A ( in the form of retinyl palmitate ) and β-carotene had any beneficial effects to prevent cancer.