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

The modern five-pound issues are not issued for circulation, but to mark events or commemorations of national or Royal significance, including the following: Queen Mother 90th birthday ( 1990 ); 40th anniversary of the Coronation ( 1993 ); 70th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 1996 ); Golden Wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 1997 ); Prince of Wales ' 50th birthday ( 1998 ); Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial ( 1999 ); Millennium commemoration ( 1999 & 2000 ); Queen Mother Centenary ( 2000 ); Queen Victoria anniversary ( 2001 ); Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee ( 2002 ); Queen Mother Memorial ( 2002 ); Queen Elizabeth II Coronation 50th anniversary ( 2003 ); Centenary of the Entente Cordiale ( 2004 ); 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar ( 2005 ); 200th anniversary of the death of Horatio Nelson ( 2005 ); 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 2006 ); Diamond Wedding of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 2007 ) 60th birthday of Prince of Wales ( 2008 ).

In 1996, Kværner acquired the UK conglomerate Trafalgar House and moved its international headquarters from Oslo to London.

** 1996: Kvaerner sought to strengthen its engineering base internationally through the acquisition of the UK-based conglomerate, Trafalgar House and became an international player in shipbuilding, oil and gas, pulp and paper and engineering and construction.

In 1996, Kvaerner took over Trafalgar House thereby acquiring its 50 % interest in the Gammon.

* Reggae on Cd: The Essential Guide, 1996 for the first edition, Trafalgar Square Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-85626-177-8

* Vagabond of Verse: Robert Service-a Biography, Trafalgar Square ISBN 1-85158-704-7 1996

It continued to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Trafalgar House until 1996, when Trafalgar House was acquired by Kvaerner, which later closed the Clydebank engineering works in 2000.

The White House FBI files controversy of June 1996 arose concerning improper access by the White House to FBI security-clearance documents.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Crowded House at the Café De Kroon, Amsterdam, June 1996.

In June 1996, at a press conference to announce the release of their greatest hits album Recurring Dream, Neil revealed that Crowded House were to disband.

Worried that their goodbye had been too low-key and had disregarded their home fans, the band performed the Farewell to the World concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on 24 November 1996, which raised funds for the Sydney Children's Hospital.

Paul Hester 1959 – 2005. Following the 1996 break-up of Crowded House, the members embarked upon a variety of projects.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives ( 1996 ) excerpt and text search

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).

On 16 January 1996, Premier Bob Carr announced that the next Governor would be Gordon Samuels, that he would not live or work at Government House and that he would retain his appointment as Chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.

The group broke up in 1996 but reformed in 2010 as House of Pain, after the trio had been members of supergroup La Coka Nostra for several years.

House of Pain abruptly broke up in 1996 after the release of their third album, Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again, which featured guest appearances by rappers Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Guru of Gang Starr, producer / rapper Divine Styler and reggae singjay Cockni O ' Dire ( credited as the Scheme Team ).

For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the center-right united again under the House of Freedoms.

By December 1996 the Conservatives had lost their majority in the House of Commons.

* Gigi by Colette in English on cassettes recorded in public at Merkin Concert Hall at Abraham Goodman House in New York City, 1996

Monica Samille Lewinsky ( born July 23, 1973 ) is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an " improper relationship " while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

In April 1996, Lewinsky's superiors transferred her from the White House to The Pentagon because they felt she was spending too much time around Clinton.

* Waller, John H. The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War ( New York: Random House, 1996 )

In a 1996 report on a Puerto Rico status political bill, the " U. S. House Committee on Resources stated that PR's current status does not meet the criteria for any of the options for full self-government ".

* The Fifties by David Halberstam ( 1996 ), Random House ( ISBN 0-517-15607-5 )

* Diop, Cheikh Anta, Modum, Egbuna P., " Towards the African renaissance: essays in African culture & development ", 1946 – 1960, p 28, Karnak House ( 1996 ).

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

During the 1996 election, the party ran hundreds of candidates for seats in the United States House of Representatives, against both Democratic and Republican incumbents.

In 1996, Poland achieved full OECD membership and submitted preliminary documentation for full EU membership.

In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies.

The largest display of The Quilt since it was last displayed in its entirety in October 1996, the 1, 000 blocks displayed consisted of every panel submitted at or after the 1996 display.

In 1996, William Mee as a AFVA member, and through the AFVA Board of Directors submitted a proposal to the Santa Fe Public Schools to utilize a Special Education building ( which was deemed obsolete and no longer needed by SFPS ) that was built by the WPA in 1934 as a museum.

To illustrate what he believed to be the intellectual weaknesses of social constructionism and postmodernism, in 1996, physics professor Alan Sokal submitted an article to the academic journal Social Text that was written purposely to be incomprehensible, but included phrases and jargon typical of articles published in the journal.

In 1996 the Makuleke tribe submitted a land claim for in the northern part of the Kruger National Park.

Then, in January 1996, the next round of licensing began, drawing another 44 applications ; CHUM submitted nine of these, including MuchMoreMusic and the French-language adult contemporary channel, now called MusiMax ( formerly MusicMax ).

Anderson, who still had the workprint of his original cut, submitted the film which was accepted and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

One such example is Alan Sokal's " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " ( 1996 ), in which Sokal submitted a seemingly real, but nonsensical, paper to the Journal Social Text in order to show that a supposedly serious journal in postmodern theory would accept a meaningless paper if it used sufficiently impenetrable language.

On September 30, 1996, Dion submitted three questions to the Supreme Court of Canada constituting the Supreme Court Reference re Secession of Quebec:

" Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs ' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize the incoherence of postmodernism.

In 1996, Sir TL decided to contest the first ever Chief Executive election and submitted his resignation to then governor Chris Patten.

In 1996, Vladimir Bukovsky published his book Judgement in Moscow containing an account of developing the punitive psychiatry based on documents that were being submitted to and considered by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Hence, and elsewhere, on publication day, in the May 1996 edition of the Lingua Franca journal, in the article “ A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ”, Prof. Sokal announced that his transformative hermeneutics article was a parody, submitted “ to test the prevailing intellectual standards ”, concluding that, as an academic publication, Social Text ignored the requisite intellectual rigor of verification and “ felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject .” Moreover, as a public intellectual, Prof. Sokal said his hoax was an action protesting against the contemporary tendency towards obscurantism — abstruse, esoteric, and vague writing in the social sciences:

) In 1993, the voters approved a two-term ( eight-year ) limit, and reconfirmed this limit when the issue was submitted to referendum in 1996.

Hughes submitted a report in December 1996 that described Headingley as having been a social powder keg before the riot, with serious problems in both safety and labour relations.

They created 16 levels each for Plutonia in four months time, and submitted them in January 1996.

Deepa Mehta, LLD (; born 1 January 1950 ) is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire ( 1996 ), Earth ( 1998 ), and Water ( 2005 ); among which Earth was submitted by the Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and " Water " was submitted by Canada for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it Canada's first non-French Canadian film to receive a nomination in that category.

In 1996, he submitted a longer paper, in which he claimed to have observed a larger effect ( 2 % weight reduction as opposed to 0. 3 % in the 1992 paper ) to the Journal of Physics D. According to science reporter Charles Platt, a member of the editorial staff, Ian Sample, leaked the submitted paper to Robert Matthews, the science correspondent for the British newspaper, the Sunday Telegraph.

The Congressional investigation continued ; on March 21, 1996, Hillary Clinton submitted a deposition under oath to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, again acknowledging concern about irregularities in the Travel Office but denying a direct role in the firings and expressing a lack of recollection to a number of questions.

In 1996 a plan was submitted to reopen the building as a social club.