* June 21 – Carl Stokes, American politician ( d. 1996 )

* Trey Stokes, How to Make an ' Alien ' for ' Autopsy ', Skeptical Inquirer, vol 20, # 1, Jan. 1996, 19 – 23.

The Chairmen were Keith Stokes ( 1996 – 2001 ) and Robin Wayne Bailey ( 2002 – present ).

Carl Burton Stokes ( June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996 ) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.

* Stokes, Donald W .; Stokes, Lillian Q. Stokes ' Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region ( 1996 ).

Prime Television purchased GWN in November 1996 from Stokes for 71 million.

* 1992 – 1996 Christopher Stokes ( Organist )

* 1996 – Christopher Stokes ( Organist and Master of the Choristers )

* Bob Stokes – Meteorologist for The Weather Channel ( 1996 – 2008 )

In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corp ( OEC ), a Cambridge based company founded by John J. Donovan.

* Ruby-Spears ( some properties licensed 1987, some properties acquired 1996 )

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

From 1979 to 2010, Mazda had a partnership with the Ford Motor Company, who acquired a 7 % stake in 1979 and by 1996, owned 33. 3 % of Mazda.

In 1996, FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia and released as Flash, contracting " Future " and " Splash ".

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

In 1996, Philips acquired source code rights from CDMATICS.

In 1996 the Union Pacific acquired the Southern Pacific.

Following an announcement on December 20, 1996, on February 4, 1997, Apple Computer acquired NeXT for $ 429 million, and used the OPENSTEP for Mach operating system as the basis for OS X.

With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).

Under the terms of the deals, if the Yeltsin government did not repay the loans by September 1996, the lender acquired title to the stock and could then resell it or take an equity position in the enterprise.

* PyroTechnix, founded as Computer Presentation, acquired February 1996, closed in 1999.

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

* Synergistic Studios, founded in 1978, acquired in 1996, studio closed in 1999.

In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities / ABC, and renamed the broadcasting group ABC, Inc., although the network continues to also use American Broadcasting Companies, such as on TV productions it owns.

In 1996 PACCAR acquired DAF Trucks.

During the 1996 off-season, the Lakers acquired 17-year-old Kobe Bryant from the Charlotte Hornets for Vlade Divac ; Bryant was drafted 13th overall out of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in that years draft, by Charlotte.

In 1996, Morgan Stanley acquired Van Kampen American Capital.

USD in 1996, Marconi Electronic Systems, a subsidiary of General Electric, was acquired by British Aerospace for 12. 9 bil.

In December 1996, the parallel software development business was acquired by Sun Microsystems, forming the basis of Sun's entry into High Performance Computing.

The company was acquired by L ' Oréal in 1996.

Virgin acquired European short-haul airline Euro Belgian Airlines in 1996 and renamed it Virgin Express.

In 1996 the Norwegian conglomerate Kværner acquired Trafalgar House, and attempted to sell Cunard.

In 1995, West Midlands Travel, the formerly municipally-owned bus network of Birmingham and the West Midlands, was acquired and renamed Travel West Midlands in September 1996.

In 1996 the group acquired its first UK rail franchises, Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline.

* 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.

In June 1996, Henry Wallace was appointed President, and he set about restructuring Mazda and setting it on a new strategic direction.

On June 1, 1996, Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation when it sent the last of its 1, 900 strategic nuclear warheads it had inherited from the Soviet Union to Russia for dismantling.

In 1996, Wollersheim was awarded an additional $ 130, 506. 71 in attorney's fees incurred while defending against a church lawsuit that was dismissed for violating a California law prohibiting strategic lawsuits against public participation.

The most famous claimed results from these years were the description of " a big crane " at a Soviet nuclear research facility by Pat Price ( Kress 1977 / 1999, Targ 1996 ) and Joseph McMoneagle, a description of a new class of Soviet strategic submarine by a team of three viewers which included McMoneagle ,( Smith 2005, McMoneagle 2002 ) and Rosemary Smith's location of a downed Soviet bomber in Africa.

* Media advocacy: is “ the strategic use of the mass media as a resource to advance a social or public policy initiative ” ( Jernigan and Wright, 1996.

After this, she served as a junior consultant at Bain & Co., a leading strategic consulting firm, during 1993 – 1996 in its Boston office.

William R. King, Thompson S. H. Teo, Key dimensions of facilitators and inhibitors for the strategic use of information technology, Journal of Management Information Systems, v. 12 n. 4, p. 35-53, March 1996

* Kaplan R S and Norton D P ( 1996 ) " Using the Balanced Scorecard as a strategic management system ", Harvard Business Review Jan – Feb pp. 75 – 85.

Priority's strategic marketing team was developed by Vice President Alyssa Pisano, who led Priority's Marketing and Creative Services Department between 1987 and 1996.

* America adrift: A strategic assessment ( 1996 )

In 1996, Computer Gaming World ranked it as the 67th best PC game of all time, stating that " it was just fun to mow down civilians in this strategic action game of futuristic gang warfare.

Ken was the president of Sierra until the company was sold to CUC in July 1996, but he remained with the company leading its strategic direction until November 1997.

* Terrible ( S 612 ), a strategic nuclear submarine ( SNLE ) of the Redoutable class, decommissioned on the 1 July 1996.

It spun out in November 1996 as CertCo with a number of outside strategic and financial investors in a transaction managed by Goldman Sachs.