* John Abbott ( actor, born 1905 ) ( 1905 – 1996 ), British character actor in U. S. films and TV series

John McCarthy ( mixed martial arts ) | " Big " John McCarthy referees as Tank Abbott puts Cal Worsham against the cage at Ultimate Ultimate 1996. Although UFC used the tagline " There are no rules!

In 1996 Oldfield was employed as a staff member by federal Liberal MP Tony Abbott.

Abbott served in the Howard Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 1996 – 1998 and Minister for Employment Services from 1998-2001.

Between 1996 and 1997 he co-hosted the breakfast radio program on Triple J with Mikey Robins, Steve Abbott and later Jen Oldershaw.

The same year, he and Mellor co-created the children's medical drama Children's Ward, which ran for many years — Abbott regularly contributed scripts until 1992, then returned briefly to the show in 1996.

Traded to the California Angels that year as part of the Jim Abbott deal, Snow played for them from 1993 to 1996 where he won his first two of what would be six career Gold Gloves.

Zileuton was introduced in 1996 by Abbott Laboratories and is now marketed in two formulations by Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. under the brand names ZYFLO and ZYFLO CR.

Then Texas governor, George W. Bush appointed Abbott to the Texas Supreme Court, and he was then twice elected to the state's highest civil court — in 1996 ( two-year term ) and 1998 ( six-year term ).

In 1996, Abbott had no Democratic opponent but was challenged by Libertarian John B. Hawley of Dallas.

John Kefford ( 5 June 1905, London, England – 24 May 1996, Los Angeles, California ) was an English character actor professionally known as John Abbott.

* Earned Runs Allowed: Jim Abbott, 118 ( 1996 )

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

The downtown area since 1996 has attracted a small community of artists and young people migrating due to Easthampton's lower cost of living compared to nearby Northampton, a hub of the bohemian community regionally.

In 1986, Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson ; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 1996 attracted a high level of media coverage.

From the mid-1960s until approximately 1996, the reservoir's population of striped bass attracted sportsmen from across the southwestern U. S., providing significant income to the town.

The instrument has also attracted a few non-Asian performers, including University of San Diego professor Christopher Adler, who also composes for the instrument ; English musician Clive Bell ( UK ); Vancouver-based composer / performer Randy Raine-Reusch ( Canada ), who played khaen on Aerosmith's Pump ( 1989 ), Cranberries ' To the Faithful Departed ( 1996 ), and Yes's The Ladder ( 1999 ); and Jaron Lanier ( United States ).

A staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, he has attracted attention with some of his statements on the Israeli-Palestine conflict One of his most controversial act, and possibly only smear on his career, was his support " à titre amical " (" in title of friendship ") for Roger Garaudy in 1996.

Wax was nominated in 1996 for a BAFTA award for her interview with Sarah, Duchess of York, an interview which attracted an audience of over 14 million viewers.

Some of the larger and more famous special exhibitions, which have attracted hundreds of thousands of people from every state and around the world, include shows featuring Paul Cézanne ( in 1996, attracting 548, 000, and 2009 ) and Salvador Dalí ( in 2005, attracting 370, 000 ).

) it was the ultimate party location, and in 1996, the first TG in Vikingskipet attracted 2500 visitors.

Stringfield's much publicised departure reportedly " sent a small shock wave through Hollywood " and her exit episode in November 1996 attracted 37 million viewers, the biggest night of the season for the NBC network.

In 1996 he said " I ’ m attracted to the idea of things being owned in common.

In 1996, the corporation began the website quackwatch. org, and the organization itself was renamed Quackwatch, Inc. in 1997 as its website attracted attention.

It attracted many hippies in the 1960s, and although the war caused many foreigners to leave, the end of hostilities in 1996 saw visitor numbers boom again, and the town's economy is almost entirely reliant on tourism today.

Their final single, " It's a Kid's World " sampled the drumbeat from Iggy Pop's " Lust for Life " and added in a series of old children's TV themes, but despite critical acclaim the band attracted little commercial success and split before their final album, Technicolour was released in 1996.

A tournament in Yerevan in 1996 attracted 21 chess masters.

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Transferring back to Bayern Munich in 1994, he was a starter in 167 games, and attracted the attention of Manchester United following UEFA Euro 1996.

The main change to the unit was to cable operation in 1996 on the facelifted Mondeo, as the rod-based linkage of the original unit attracted criticism for feeling vague and notchy.

Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference ( 1996 ) focusses on social and environmental justice ( although its dialectical perspective has attracted the ire of some Greens ).

Some of his reviews attracted controversy, most notably in April 1996, when he praised Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners and later in September of the same year when he argued that David Irving's work was valuable because of what Craig saw as Irving's devil's advocate role.

Scilingo had earlier attracted great notoriety for publicly confessing to journalist Horacio Verbitsky in c. 1996, to participating in the so-called death flights, the first of a series of public confessions collectively called in Argentina the ' Scilingo effect ' ( Feitlowitz 1999 ).

After a $ 75 million construction effort, the arena opened on October 8, 1996, and since has attracted over five million patrons.

By 1996 the band had attracted the attention of Fueled by Ramen Records and entered the studio to record their first album, Forget the World.

Of course, success breeds success, so these caption wins attracted a lot of other people to the corps for the 1996 season, including many from Quebec, as well as many Americans, all of a certain talent level.

Military rebellions and social unrest in 1996 were accompanied by widespread destruction of property and a drop in GDP of 2 %.

The executive order signed in 1996 to turn off Selective Availability in 2000 was proposed by the US Secretary of Defense, William Perry, because of the widespread growth of differential GPS services to improve civilian accuracy and eliminate the US military advantage.

* 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.

The Association of State Green Parties ( ASGP ), a forerunner organization, first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's United States presidential campaigns in 1996 and 2000.

The resulting widespread demoralization of federal forces, and the almost universal opposition of the Russian public to the conflict, led Boris Yeltsin's government to declare a ceasefire in 1996 and sign a peace treaty a year later.

Two Truth Commissions, the REMHI report, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, and the CEH report, conducted by the United Nations as part of the 1996 Accords of Firm and Durable Peace, documented widespread human rights abuses committed by Ríos Montt's military regime, including widespread massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous population.

* September 1996 – A severe storm, with strong winds, heavy rain and hail, hit Armidale and caused widespread damage.

Even reruns of variety shows have generally not been particularly widespread ; TV Land telecast briefly some variety shows ( namely The Ed Sullivan Show and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ) upon its beginning in 1996, but within a few years, those reruns stopped.

After several months of uncertainty, LRA forces began crossing back into Uganda and carrying out attacks on a scale and of a brutality not seen since 1995 to 1996, resulting in widespread displacement and suffering in regions, such as Soroti, that had never previously been touched by the insurgency.

The lake gained widespread recognition in December 2002 when a research team, led by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Peter Doran, announced the discovery of 2, 800 year old halophile microbes ( primarily filamentous cyanobacteria ) preserved in ice layer core samples drilled in 1996.

Confronted by allegations in a 13 May 1996, Business Week cover story, of widespread sexual harassment and other abuses, Astra USA Inc. suspended three top executives and launched an internal probe.

It came into widespread use during the 1996 United States presidential election.

The term came into widespread use near the time of the 1996 Republican National Convention.

The lake gained widespread recognition in December 2002 when a research team, led by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Peter Doran, announced the discovery of 2, 800 year old halophile microbes ( primarily filamentous cyanobacteria ) preserved in ice layer core samples drilled in 1996.

Ugly " six pack " units were banned with design guidelines overhauled and Suburban Centre Improvement Schemes were also commenced in 1996 to revitalise traditional local shopping strips and are now widespread throughout the city., Mr Quinn became Brisbane's Lord Mayor following Lord Mayor Jim Soorley's retirement from politics in 2003 after serving as Deputy Mayor since 1997.

While LGA sockets have been in use as early as 1996 by the MIPS R10000 and HP PA-8000 processors, the interface did not gain widespread use until Intel introduced their LGA platform, starting with the 5x0 and 6x0 sequence Pentium 4 ( Prescott ) in 2004.

Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widespread availability of encryption software outside the U. S., and the perception by many companies that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in President Bill Clinton signing the Executive order 13026 transferring the commercial encryption from the Munition List to the Commerce Control List.

Initially appearing in 1996 and gaining widespread attention, the contest was repeated three times over the course of a year and a half, and over 4, 000 prizes were awarded during each iteration, ranging from T-shirts to college scholarships.

Although torture was outlawed in China in 1996, a UN investigator found it to still be widespread in 2005, particularly because the narrow definition of the law, leaving a mark, does not comply with the UN definition.

IUCN lists the Monterrey platyfish, formerly widespread in Mexico, as Critically Endangered, upgraded from Endangered in 1996.

Also in this period, many other bands acquired widespread national projection, such as: Raimundos ( which was formed in the late 1980s, but only released its first album in 1994 ) with its Forrocore style, Skank and O Rappa, both of which with a style that can be designated like a kind of reggae-rock, Pato Fu as the first indie band that arrived at mainstream, Charlie Brown Jr., with its alternative rock with rap and skate punk influences, and Mamonas Assassinas, who were a great hit with humour and rock but its members died in a tragic plane accident ( 1996 ).

Brathwaite et al in 1996 reported widespread metastases of a malignant glomus tumor involving the skin, lungs, jejunum, liver, spleen, and lymph nodes.

Shamrock faced Olympic alternate wrestler and master submission grappler Minoru Suzuki on January 28, 1996 for the vacant belt in a match that drew widespread anticipation.