Ivan Stang ( a regular Starwood participant and speaker ) to found the annual Church of the SubGenius X-Day festival in 1996, which takes place at Wisteria Event Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio.

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.

In 1995, musicologist Steve Knopoff observed Yirrkala women performing djatpangarri songs that are traditionally performed by men and in 1996, ethnomusicologist Elizabeth MacKinley reported women of the Yanyuwa group giving public performances.

Among the 1996 Republican Party candidates, both Steve Forbes and Phil Gramm proposed the flat tax.

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ).

; Strange Little Tour: This tour was Amos's first since becoming a mother in 2000 and her first tour fully solo since 1994 ( Steve Caton was present on some songs in 1996 ).

* In 1996, RCA Victor released the tribute album The Songs of West Side Story featuring new versions of the songs from the musical sung by popular music stars, including: " The Jet Song " sung by Brian Setzer, " A Boy Like That " sung by Selena, " I feel Pretty " sung by Little Richard, two versions of " Somewhere " performed by Aretha Franklin and Phil Collins, " Tonight " sung by Wynonna Judd and Kenny Loggins, " America " sung by Patti LaBelle, Natalie Cole and Sheila E., " I Have a Love " sung by Trisha Yearwood and " Rumble " performed by Chick Corea Elektric Band and Steve Vai's Monsters.

* September 22 – American millionaire Steve Forbes announces his candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.

1 ), Steve Jolliffe ( wind instruments and vocals on Cyclone and the following tour ; he was also part of a short-lived 1969 line-up ), Ralf Wadephul ( in collaboration with Edgar Froese recorded album Blue Dawn, but it was released only in 2006 ; also credited for one track on Optical Race ( 1988 ) and toured with the band in support of this album ), and Linda Spa ( saxophonist who appeared on numerous albums and concerts between 1990 and 1996, as well as 2005 onwards ).

For the 1996 Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire ( written by author Steve Perry ), Lucasfilm chose Joel McNeely to write a score.

She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You ( 1996 ) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners ( 1999 ), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit.

In Hart's absence after WrestleMania XII, Steve Austin became the new face of the company, starting with his Austin 3: 16 speech, shortly after defeating Jake Roberts in the tournament finals at the 1996 King of the Ring pay-per-view.

Three of the most famous drive by shootings were the murders of Tupac Shakur on September 13, 1996, and The Notorious B. I. G on March 9, 1997 and The Steve Harvey Show's Merlin Santana on November 9, 2002.

Photo of Steve Caton by James Bradford, circa 1996

* Stephen Lee " Steve " Gunn, former mayor of Montgomery ; represented Grant Parish in the legislature as an Independent from 1992 – 1996

In 1993, Lydon worked on his memoirs, first published in 1995 as Rotten-No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, and in 1996 he regrouped with Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook for the Sex Pistols ' Filthy Lucre Tour.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

In 1996, he landed the role of Romeo Santana on The Steve Harvey Show.

Steve Crisman, Mariel Hemingway's then-husband in 1996, told People that year, " This was the best I'd seen her in years.

A stop-gap EP recorded by Steve Albini, Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt, was released in 1996.

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* 1996 Guitar Concertos by Richard Harvey ( Concerto Antico ) and Steve Gray ( Sony )

In 1996 the NME started its website NME. COM under the stewardship of NME editor Steve Sutherland and NME publisher Robert Tame.

Norman led the very next major ( the 1996 U. S. Open at Oakland Hills ) after 36 holes, and then faded on the weekend — finishing five shots behind eventual winner Steve Jones.

1996 saw his first release with them, Making Light of It, a low-key collection of songs, the majority returning to an introspective demeanor and tone, produced by David Miner ( T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello ), and featuring Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong of The Choir.

The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1996 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate the team to Baltimore.

The Baltimore Ravens came into existence in 1996 when Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate his team from Cleveland to Baltimore.

* A convict, about to be released from a TBS-clinic, murdered the owner of a garage in 1996 while under the influence of drugs.

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.

Part of the team's spotty performance might have been that the new coach and the new owner did not really get along well, and Belichick came to serve during the 1996 season as the head coach's interface with the Kraft family and the non-football operations side of the business.

On March 13, 1996, Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening, and Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry signed a contract that paved the way for the immediate start of construction for the new home of the Redskins ( now FedExField ).

** Charlie Finley, American owner of the Oakland A's 1960 – 80 ( d. 1996 )

In 1996 Italian businessman Gabriele Rumi, former owner of the Fondmetal team switched his sponsorship support from Tyrrell to Minardi.

* Headgate Studios in Bountiful, Utah, founded in 1992, acquired April 1996, sold to original owner in 1999.

This is best seen in the " Billionaire Ted " parodies of early 1996 ( a reference to WCW's owner and patron, media mogul Ted Turner ) which culminated in a " rasslin '" match during the warm-up to WrestleMania XII.

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.

Smothers is the owner of Remick Ridge Vineyards in Sonoma County, California, with his wife Marcy Carriker and two children, Bo ( born 1993 ), and Riley Rose ( born 1996 ).

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

In March 1996, the band, complete with a new line-up, recorded their second full-length album with Rich Gavalis a producer and owner of Dome Sound Studios, in Royersford, PA, local to Jimmy Pop.

* January 26-Ronnie Scott, jazz musician and club owner ( d. 1996 )

In 2000, the current owner Jerry Speyer ( a close friend of David Rockefeller ), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L. P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought for $ 1. 85 billion the older 14 buildings and land from the previous syndicated owners: Goldman Sachs ( which had 50 percent ownership ), Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller, who organized the syndicate in 1996 and is historically associated with the other partners.

The band then signed with Columbia Records in 1996 ( although Dexter claims that Brett Gurewitz, owner of Epitaph and guitarist for Bad Religion, sold the contract to Columbia ) for whom they released their next six albums, Ixnay on the Hombre ( 1997 ), Americana ( 1998 ), Conspiracy of One ( 2000 ), Splinter ( 2003 ), Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace ( 2008 ), and their most recent, Days Go By ( 2012 ).

The Walt Disney Company acquired Schoolhouse Rock in 1996 along with its acquisition of ABC owner Capital Cities Communications ; Schoolhouse Rock was one of only two children's shows ( The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show being the other ) to continue airing ( albeit in reruns ) after the transition to One Saturday Morning.

Editor Tom Cruickshank came on board in 1996, after Telemedia sold Harrowsmith Country Life, and its sister publication Equinox, to its current owner Malcolm Publishing, a small Montreal company.

Barrichello's relationship with team owner Eddie Jordan soured during 1996, and at the end of the year, after being linked to strong teams, he left for the newly formed Stewart Grand Prix.

By 1996, he had purchased all outstanding shares to be the sole owner of the Irvine Company.

: Paul Reiner had sold the masters from the Tatum, Cyril Nathaniel Haynes ( 1915 – 1996 ) ( piano ), and Norvo sessions to Dial Records owner, Ross Russell, closing the deal in June 21, 1949, via telephone.

Taft was the original owner of WKRC-TV, until 1996.

The name Soho was first mentioned in a 1996 article in the South China Morning Post newspaper attributed to Elgin Street restaurant owner, Thomas Goetz, who came up with the acronym.