* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – President of Turkey Süleyman Demirel approved to " Law of ban For Casino in Turkey "

* 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

* 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Soviet Air Force general and Chechen leader, 1st President of Ichkeria ( b. 1944 )

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.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

In July 1996, former Burundian President Buyoya returned to power in a bloodless coup.

To protest the 1996 coup by President Pierre Buyoya, neighbouring countries imposed an economic embargo on Burundi.

Burhanuddin Rabbani ( Burhânuddîn Rabbânî ; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011 ) was President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996.

He took over as President from 1992 until the Taliban's conquest of Kabul in 1996.

Contrarily, the 1996 Constitutional Reform designates the President of the Senate as constitutional successor ; but the Senate ( provided for by 1996 Reform ) does not exist.

In 1996, the Moldovan parliament, citing fears of " Romanian expansionism ," rejected a proposal from President Mircea Snegur to change the name of the language to Romanian, and in 2003 a Moldovan-Romanian dictionary was published, purporting to show that the two countries speak different languages.

In 1996, he hosted the Sharm El-Sheikh " Summit of the Peacemakers " attended by President Bill Clinton and other world leaders.

In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy.

* 1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.

On May 16, 1996, U. S. President Bill Clinton ordered the removal of the American mines.

Under President René Préval ( President from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 until 14 May 2011 ), the country's economic agenda included trade and tariff liberalization, measures to control government expenditure and increase tax revenues, civil-service downsizing, financial-sector reform, and the modernization of state-owned enterprises through their sale to private investors, the provision of private sector management contracts, or joint public-private investment.

* 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a " definitive end " to French nuclear weapons testing.

* 1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India ( b. 1913 )

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.

A February 1996 referendum — in violation of the constitution and the law on referendums — amended the constitution to give President Akayev more power.

A February 1996 referendum – in violation of the Constitution and the law on referendums – amended the Constitution to give President Akayev more power.

During 1996, the Ministry of Public Security established the Fuerza Pública or Public Force which reorganized and eliminated the Civil Guard, Rural Assistance Guard, and Frontier Guards as separate entities ; they are now under the Ministry and operate on a geographic command basis performing ground security, law enforcement, counter-narcotics, and border patrol functions.

" It was founded on September 1, 1996, when the town of Hiroshima was reorganized as a city.

In 1996, the channels were once again reorganized.

The Department of Physical Education was reorganized as the College of Physical Education and Sports, and in 1996, the Vocational College of Health Services was reorganized as the College of Health Sciences.

In December 1996, DBOF was reorganized into four working capital funds ( Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense-Wide ).

On May 27, 1996, the law " On State Protection " reorganized the GUO ( Glavnoye Upravlenie Okhrani ) into the FSO ( Federal Protection Service ).

It was reorganized as a polytechnic college offering the bachelor's degree in 1996.

In 1996 the responsibility for culture was transferred to the newly reorganized Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

The company went bankrupt in 1976 but was reorganized in 1993 and then totally independent again by 1996.

Officially named and reorganized in January 1996, DSCC was formed from the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission ordered merger of the former Defense Construction Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio, and the former Defense Electronics Supply Center in Dayton, Ohio.

In 1996, the company was reorganized and renamed GPU, Inc.

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.

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

Further local government organisation in 1996 placed the area in the county borough of Caerphilly.

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.

The BSP won convincingly the pre-term elections in December 1994 with a majority of 125 seats out of the 240 seats in the parliament and despite the mandate is for 4 years, BSP's government collapsed too and remained in office until 1996 due to the economic crysis in Bulgaria.

Censorship was abolished in 1996, but the government sometimes seizes or suspends newspapers and occasionally arrests journalists.

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.

Economic difficulties caused by the looting and destruction during the 1996 and 1997 mutinies, energy crises, and government mismanagement continued to trouble Patassé's government through 2000.

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 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.

The tests were concluded in January 1996 and a moratorium was placed on future testing by the French government.

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.

Though Dar es Salaam lost its official status as capital city to Dodoma in 1974 ( a move which was not complete until 1996 ), it remains the centre of the permanent central government bureaucracy and continues to serve as the capital for the surrounding Dar es Salaam Region.

This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary Lord Hunt, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that " there is absolutely no doubt at all that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5 ... a lot of them like Peter Wright who were rightwing, malicious and had serious personal grudges – gave vent to these and spread damaging malicious stories about that Labour government.

After the first free elections in 1994, de Klerk became deputy president in the government of national unity under Nelson Mandela, a post he kept until 1996.

Under the Arzú administration, peace negotiations were concluded, and the government signed peace accords ending the 36-year internal conflict in December 1996.

The City Chambers in Glasgow, Scotland has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square.

In 1996, the centre-right Partido Popular government came to power, led by José María Aznar.

In late 1996, Aristide broke with Préval and formed a new political party, the Lavalas Family ( Fanmi Lavalas, FL ), which won elections in April 1997 for one-third of the Senate and local assemblies, but these results were not accepted by the government.

These successes allowed the government to concentrate in 1996 and 1997 on major structural reforms such as the implementation of a fully funded pension system ( partly modelled after Chile's pension system with major modifications ), reform of higher education, and the creation of a national treasury.

The years 1996 – 1998 were a period of turmoil in the federal government with several short-lived alliances holding sway.