Nurmi's record for most Olympic gold medals was matched by gymnast Larisa Latynina in 1964, swimmer Mark Spitz in 1972 and fellow track and field athlete Carl Lewis in 1996, and broken by swimmer Michael Phelps in 2008.

* Jaycie Phelps, member of the US Women's gold medal winning 1996 Olympic Gymnastic Team

In 1996 Phelps led a protest at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C., proclaiming:

He headlined the Australian thriller, Blackwater Trail ( 1995 ), with Peter Phelps before receiving a starring role on the NBC television sitcom Suddenly Susan ( 1996 ), which saw success for a four-season run ; this was followed by a starring role in the Shaquille O ' Neil movie Steel ( 1997 ); the film also starred Annabeth Gish and Richard Roundtree ( Steel was a commercial flop ).

In the 1996 film update of Mission: Impossible, the character of Phelps ( played by Jon Voight ) was re-imagined as a traitor who murders three fellow IMF agents only to be killed himself at the end of the film, a decision that disappointed Graves, as well as many fans of the original series.

Phelps has been the executive producer of six American television daytime dramas, a record in this industry, including Santa Barbara ( 1987 – 1991 ), Guiding Light ( 1991 – 1995 ), Another World ( 1995 – 1996 ; resigned August 4, 1996 ), One Life to Live ( 1997 – 2001 ), General Hospital ( January 2001 – January 2012 ), and as of now, The Young and the Restless ( October 2012 – Present ).

Jaycie Lynn Phelps ( born September 26, 1979 in Greenfield, Indiana ) is a United States Olympic gymnast and member of the 1996 Olympic Gold medal U. S. women's gymnastics team, Magnificent 7.

Orr left and Doug Phelps rejoined in 1996 as lead vocalist for the album Stompin ' Grounds.

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

The first round of mass privatisation finally began in January 1996, and auctions began toward the end of that year.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

Cyprus ratified the new world trade agreement ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT ) in 1995 and began implementing it fully on 1 January 1996.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

After Cobain committed suicide in 1994, Love began using heroin again regularly, but quit using the drug in 1996 at the insistence of director Miloš Forman when she landed a starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

In 1996, Love began a relationship with actor Edward Norton and were at one point engaged, but separated in 1999.

Starting in 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of heavily improvised films.

When the Zairian government began to escalate its massacres in November 1996, the Tutsi militias erupted in rebellion against Mobutu.

The two recent conflicts ( the First and Second Congo Wars ), which began in 1996, have dramatically reduced national output and government revenue, have increased external debt, and have resulted in deaths of more than five million people from war, and associated famine and disease.

In 1996, offshore oil began flowing, and, with several US oil companies present in the country, the US reopened the embassy in October 2003.

EverQuest began as a concept by John Smedley in 1996.

Development of EverQuest began in 1996 when Sony Interactive Studios America ( SISA ) executive John Smedley secured funding for a 3D game much like text-based MUDs following the successful launch of Meridian 59 the previous year.

Radio station WKTU began to hold " Freestyle Free for ALL " live concerts in 1996, and formerly held weekend freestyle nights hosted by Judy Torres.

Faced with the potential decrease or cessation of some of the assistance programs upon the Compact's financial provisions ' expiry in 2001, the Government of the FSM in 1996 began to implement a program of economic reforms designed to reduce the role of the public sector in the economy.

The series began as an open specification, then tyres were standardized from 1986 onwards, followed by engines and chassis in 1996.

Gibnet Limited, a private company, began internet services in January 1996, with a 64kbs circuit to Spain.

In 1996, Arlington's campus began its first phase in a three phase campus redevelopment project.

The project began in early January 1996, with a program that ran on i386 computers.

The horror film style has changed over time, but in 1996 Scream set off a " chain of copycats ", leading to a new variety of teenage, horror movies .< ref name = Stack > This new approach to horror films began to gradually earn more and more income as seen in the progress of Scream movies ; the first movie earned six million and the third movie earned one-hundred and one million.

Then, ~ 150, 000 years later ( i. e. around 50, 000 years ago ), sub-groups of this population began to expand our species ' range to regions outside of, and ( later ) within, this continent ( Tishkoff, 1996 ).

These moves along with others saw the Colts began to turn around their fortune with a playoff appearance in 1995 and 1996.

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.

By 1994, Kemp had embarked on 241 fund-raising dinners to raise $ 35 million for a 1996 Presidential bid and to pay off his 1988 campaign debts.

Forbes had tried to get Kemp to run in the 1996 campaign, but Kemp declined and in fact endorsed Forbes just as Dole was closing in on the nomination, and just after Dole gained the endorsements of former contenders Lamar Alexander and Richard Lugar.

On August 5, 1996, Dole announced a 15 % flat tax in response to both the Forbes campaign and Kemp's tax reform commission.

In 1996, the Sparkle campaign compared syntactic parsers in four different languages ( English, French, German and Italian ).

PAGAD's campaign came to prominence in 1996 when a local gang leader, Rashaad Staggie, was beaten and burnt to death by a mob during a march to his home in Salt River.

By January 1996, the party had collected $ 400, 000 in donations, while Hagelin's campaign had received about $ 300, 000 plus $ 100, 000 in matching funds.

In February the following year, China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a U. S. Department of Justice investigation had discovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 presidential campaign.

The U. S. Justice Department alleged Hsia facilitated $ 100, 000 in illegal contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign through her efforts at the Temple.

In 1996, Unification Church gathered 3, 500 signatures during its anti-porn campaign.

" The addition of the V-chip into the Telecommunications Act was helpful to attract American voters for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.

McDonald's was accused of plagiarising a number of Viz Top Tips in an advertising campaign they ran in 1996.

IWW organizing drives in recent years have included a major campaign to organize Borders Books in 1996, a strike at the Lincoln Park Mini Mall in Seattle that same year, organizing drives at Wherehouse Music, Keystone Job Corps, the community organization ACORN, various homeless and youth centers in

* During the political controversy surrounding the dome in 1996 Wonderbra ran an advertising campaign with the slogan ' Not all domes lack public support '

Between 1996 and 2004, companies in the Hired Truck Program gave more than $ 800, 000 in campaign contributions to various politicians, from House Speaker Michael Madigan to Gov.

In February 1996 the KLA undertook a series of attacks against targets which included police stations and Yugoslav government officers, alleging that they had killed Albanian civilians as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign.

U. S. Senator Bob Dole decried its supposed moral depravity and glorification of drug use during the 1996 presidential campaign, although he admitted that he had not actually seen the film.

In the spring of 1996, with Yeltsin's popularity at a low ebb, Chubais and Yeltsin recruited a team of six leading Russian financiers and media barons ( all oligarchs ) who bankrolled the Yeltsin campaign with $ 3 million and guaranteed coverage on television and in leading newspapers directly serving the president's campaign strategy.

Dole was re-elected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and 1992, before resigning on June 11, 1996 to focus on his Presidential campaign.

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

In 1996, the Republican Party made abolition of the Department a cornerstone of their campaign promises, calling it an inappropriate federal intrusion into local, state, and family affairs.

Browne's 1996 campaign platform

Claims of wrongdoing within Browne's 1996 presidential campaign surfaced during his second run in 2000.