In 1996, a tenth anniversary edition was released.

Ter-Petrosyan was re-elected in 1996.

Extreme poverty was defined in 1996 by Joseph Wresinski, the founder of ATD Fourth World as:

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 ).

A modified infrageneric classification of Amaranthus was published by Mosyakin & Robertson ( 1996 ) and includes three subgenera: Acnida, Amaranthus, and Albersia.

Their lower level Minor League Baseball teams began play in 1996 ; the expansion draft was held that year as well.

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.

The compelling rationale for this was the integral role technology now plays in our lives, which was not present in 1996.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The study of apoptosis brought on by Bunyaviridae was initiated in 1996 when it was observed that apoptosis was induced by the La Crosse virus into the kidney cells of baby hamsters and into the brains of baby mice.

In 1994, the State Compensation Law ( 国家赔偿法 ) was passed, followed by the Administrative Penalties Law ( 行政处罚法 ) in 1996.

In 1996, two-tier local government was abolished and Angus was established as one of the replacement single-tier Council Areas.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

Revision 1. 2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996.

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.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.

Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

) The original right-of-way is now controlled by the Union Pacific, which purchased Southern Pacific in 1996.

In January 1996, the Britannica was purchased from the Benton Foundation by billionaire Swiss financier Jacqui Safra, who serves as its current Chair of the Board.

New Model M keyboards continued to be manufactured for IBM by Lexmark until 1996, when Unicomp purchased the keyboard technology.

The current owners purchased Land ’ s End in 1996 and formed a company named Heritage Attractions Limited.

Apple purchased NeXT on December 20, 1996 for $ 429 million and 1. 5 million shares of Apple stock, and much of the current OS X and iOS operating systems are built on the OPENSTEP foundation.

In February 1996, SGI purchased the well-known supercomputer manufacturer Cray Research for $ 740 million, and began to use marketing names such as " CrayLink " for ( SGI-developed ) technology integrated into the SGI server line.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

In 1996, Turner's company, Turner Broadcasting System ( whose Turner Entertainment division oversaw the film library ), was purchased by Time Warner who also owned Warner Bros .. Today, Warner Home Video holds the video rights to the entire Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies animated output by virtue of Time Warner's ownership of Turner Entertainment — this is why their Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box sets include cartoons from both the pre-8 / 48 Turner-owned and post-7 / 48 Warner Bros. owned periods.

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

Ed Snider purchased the 76ers in 1996.

Development was put on hiatus in 1994 after slow sales on the Windows platform, and officially ended in 1996 after Lotus was purchased by IBM.

The project was left in limbo until April 1996 when the product was officially killed, shortly after IBM purchased Lotus.

In 1996, Hershey purchased the American operations of the Leaf Candy Company from Huhtamäki.

In 1996 Monsanto purchased Agracetus, the biotechnology company that had generated the first transgenic varieties of cotton, soybeans, peanuts, and other crops, and which Monsanto had already been licencing technology from since 1991.

Monsanto first entered the maize seed business when it purchased 40 % of DEKALB in 1996 ; it purchased the remainder of the corporation in 1998.

* Fairchild-Dornier, in 1996, Fairchild took on this name, when it purchased Dornier's assets, see Fairchild Aircraft

The non-profit Old Regent Theatre purchased the theater the same year and restored it to its 1930s glory in 1996.

In 1996 the City purchased the old Riverton Elementary School and it ’ s surrounding 9 acres of land from the Jordan School District for $ 225, 000.

Robb Hicks, the current owner and publisher of the paper, purchased the Bulletin from his father, Jim Hicks in 1996.

On April 1, 1996, Taco Bell announced via ads and press releases that it had purchased the Liberty Bell and changed its name to the Taco Liberty Bell.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which was gaining new ground in Russia after 1996 Duma Elections finally purchased the Pravda and recovered it.

Stoddart returned to racing in 1996 when he purchased ten old Tyrrell F1 cars, a Minardi, a Benetton, and a Brabham for his own use.