* 1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

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.

* 1996 – The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring " Ebonics " a language or dialect.

Paul Erdős ( 1913 – 1996 ) was an influential and itinerant mathematician, who spent a large portion of his later life living out of a suitcase and writing papers with those of his colleagues willing to give him room and board.

In 1996, Glover was running the Ithaca Hours system from his home, and the system had an advisory board and a governing board called the " Barter Potluck ".

* 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.

* 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.

Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget, a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, starring Dana Delany, which depicts a young woman fatally affected by scleroderma ; the film was based on the experiences of Saget's sister Gay.

Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20: 31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.

All 35 people on board die, including United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown ( see 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash ).

An MPD thruster was tested on board the Japanese Space Flyer Unit as part of EPEX ( Electric Propulsion EXperiment ) that was launched March 18, 1995 and retrieved by space shuttle mission STS-72 January 20, 1996.

He was Chair of FairVote from 1996 to 2008 and continues to serve on its board, served as President of the World Federalist Association and on the advisory board of Public Campaign and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and is of counsel to the Washington, DC-based law firm of Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

Kill Doctor Lucky is a humorous board game designed by James Ernest and released in 1996 by Cheapass Games.

From 1996 the website of the Colchester tourist board attributed the origin of the rhyme to a cannon recorded as used from the church of St Mary-at-the-Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648.

In late 1996, Oakland was the center of a controversy surrounding Ebonics ( African American Vernacular English ), an ethnolect the outgoing Oakland Unified School District board voted to recognize on December 18.

In 1996, after years of internal debate, the Pulitzer Prize board announced a change in the criteria for the music prize " so as to attract the best of a wider range of American music.

He was named Northern Telecom Limited's CEO in 1995 and was elected to the board of directors in 1996.

Merle Howell served as the first chairman of the three-member board starting on January 1, 1996.

In 1996, Amelio accepted invitation from Apple Computer, a customer of National Semiconductor, to join its board of directors.

Troubles at Apple later prompted the board to invite Amelio to take on the position of CEO, which he accepted in February 1996.

In 1996 the literary trustees of the estate approached novelist Jill Paton Walsh and asked her to look at the material with a view to completing the novel.

In 1996, Academy trustees attempted to solve the problem of " compressing 75 % or more of the world's music into a single award category " by broadening the definition of " world music " to include non-Western classical music.

When the school became a university in 1996, the trustees voted on a new name: Southern Adventist University.

It was feared that the regiment would be disbanded following his death in 1996, until his successor wrote to the estate trustees insisting that he would continue his traditional role.

In 1996 the college's trustees voted to re-organize to achieve university status, and the current name of Pfeiffer University was adopted.

In 1996, following nearly 3 years of intense litigation over the estate of Doris Duke, Keohane was named as one of the " six people would sit as trustees of the charitable foundations established by Miss Duke's will .".

In March 1996, he attempted to register to vote for the OHA trustees.

In the summer of 1996, the RNLI decided to station a lifeboat at Kildownet.

Quayle considered but decided against running for Governor of Indiana in 1996.

He decided against running for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, citing health problems related to phlebitis.

He strongly considered forming a break-away party, the New Zealand Democratic Coalition, for the 1996 MMP election but then decided against it.

During the thirteenth Knesset ( 1992 – 1996 ) it was decided to hold a separate ballot for prime minister modeled after American presidential elections.

Since this new stadium was not ready until the 1999 season, Adams decided to move his team to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee in 1997 after playing before small Houston crowds in 1996.

The album was a commercial failure, and, following Jem Finer's decision to leave the band in 1996, the remaining members decided it was time to call it quits.

Ted Turner, who in 1996 was worth $ 3. 2 billion due to his Time Warner enterprise, decided to make a $ 1 billion contribution to the UN because he had previously donated to similar causes, and felt strongly about the issues the UN were participating in.

In 1996, in a symbolic response to growing dissatisfaction among Scots at the prevailing constitutional settlement, the British Conservative Government decided that the Stone should be kept in Scotland when not in use at coronations.

On 22 January 1996, the Board of Directors of Daimler-Benz decided to focus on its core automobile business and cut ties with Fokker.

The first major tournament final to be decided by such a goal was the 1995 Auto Windscreens Shield Final where Birmingham beat Carlisle United 1-0 with a goal from Paul Tait, followed by the 1996 European Football Championship, won by Germany over the Czech Republic.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

With orders and production almost at a standstill after the fall of Communism Tatra decided to stop building the T613 in 1996.

In addition to this initiative, TSR also decided to publish twelve hardcover novels in 1996, despite a previous history of publishing only one or two hardcover novels each year.

Some of the founders of the WSF, were part of the First International Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in 1996, and decided to expand the idea and make it a global forum for activists of all stripes opposing hegemonic globalization and neoliberalism.

For a while, starting in 1994, the subsidiary was renamed AT & T Global Information Solutions, but in 1995, AT & T decided to spin off the company, and in 1996, changed its name back to NCR in preparation for the spin-off.

In 1996, after some debate, it was decided not to name a street after her in Berlin-Schöneberg, her birthplace.

Carazo decided to retire after that, but in 1996, he tried a comeback in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, losing by a knockout in four rounds to an unknown boxer.

Although Perry had said earlier that they would leave Bosnia within a year, in June 1996 he hinted at a longer stay if NATO decided the peace in Bosnia would not hold without them.

It was eventually decided that the company's state-owned status was detrimental to its growth, and Renault was privatized in 1996.

In 1996 John Sykes decided to reactivate Thin Lizzy, presenting the band as a tribute to Phil Lynott's life and work.

The LilyPond project was started in 1996 by Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen, after they decided to abandon work on MPP ( MusiXTeX PreProcessor ), a project they began collaborating on in 1995.

In 1996, incumbent Republican U. S. Congressman Bill Zeliff decided to run for Governor of New Hampshire.

The JOCX-MIDNIGHT branding was introduced in October 1993 to replace the previous JUNGLE branding, and lasted until March 1996 when Fuji TV decided to stop branding their late-night / early-morning slots.