In 1996 Torfaen became a unitary authority.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

He became soon unpopular within the army, resulting in violent mutinies in 1996 – 1997.

Croatia became a member of the Council of Europe in 1996.

Prime minister Caambi El-Yachourtu became acting president until Djohar returned from exile in January, 1996.

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.

Established in 1996, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies became the first independent Jewish seminary to be established on the west coast.

OSF became part of the newly formed Open Group in 1996.

Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.

This facility became more vital after the closure of the Indian Ocean Station in 1996.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

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.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

In 1995 Hungary's currency, the Forint ( HUF ), became convertible for all current account transactions, and subsequent to OECD membership in 1996, for almost all capital account transactions as well.

This reflective style became more overt and ironic with the arrival of Scream ( 1996 ).

From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri became a state within the Taliban state.

Icon is not object-oriented, but an object-oriented extension called Idol was developed in 1996 which eventually became Unicon.

The first version of the program was released in November 1996 and ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, later patenting the technology.

* 1996 – Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.

When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

Then in 1996, Warner Glenn, a rancher and hunting guide from Douglas, Arizona, came across a jaguar in the Peloncillo Mountains and became a jaguar researcher, placing webcams which recorded four more Arizona jaguars.

From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri furthermore became a state within the Taliban state.

After Tesh left his 10-year job as co-host for Entertainment Tonight in 1996, he turned to his career as a contemporary keyboardist.

In October 1996, already separated, Bolocco took the job as co-host in one of the shows with the highest ratings in Chilean television history, Viva el lunes (" Long Live Monday "), alongside Kike Morandé and comedian Álvaro Salas.

In September 1996 Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes hired the then relatively unknown Hannity to host a television program under the working title Hannity and LTBD (" liberal to be determined ").< ref >< nowiki > http :// web. archive. org / web / 20061109203543 / http :// www. alan. com / staff / alan. htm </ nowiki ></ ref > Alan Colmes was then hired to co-host and the show debuted as Hannity & Colmes.

From 1996 to 2009, Colmes served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel.

Woolery has also hosted Love Connection ( 1983 – 94 ), The Big Spin ( 1985 ), Scrabble ( 1984 – 90, 1993 ), The Home and Family Show ( 1996 – 98, co-host ), The Dating Game ( 1997 – 99 ), Greed ( 1999 – 2000 ) ( which was originally supposed to be hosted by Phil Donahue ), and Lingo ( 2002 – 07 ).

He was back at WABC in 1996, and in 2000 he became the co-host, with attorney Ron Kuby, of the long-running Curtis and Kuby in the Morning.

Kaplinsky started out presenting on F2F, a youth chat show, for Granada Talk TV in 1996 with co-host Sacha Baron Cohen.

From 1996 to 1999, Fernández was the co-host for Access Hollywood, an entertainment news program on NBC.

He has been host of them 5 times ( 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998 ) and co-host in 2006.

In 1996, Harder and co-host Choate joined in a venture along with the United Auto Workers to start a new for-profit radio network, the United Broadcasting Network.

Brooke Stevens filled in as co-host following Bill Trumbull's retirement in 1996, prior to leaving the station in 2000.

Between 1996 and 2000 she was co-host of KPFK radio's Up For Air, which received the 1997 National Federation of Community Broadcasters Silver Reel ( i. e. runner-up ) award for " Morning Public Affairs Program ".

From August 1993-April 1996, he was the co-host of the radio advice program Loveline.

Between November 1996 and March 1997, Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan parodied West and his co-host, Eddy Lewis, on three episodes of Saturday Night Live.

By 1996, VH1 was heading down the same path as its sister channel, MTV, choosing to focus more on music-related shows than on music videos.

In the fall of 1996, VH1 premiered Pop-Up Video, in which music videos were accompanied by " pop-ups " ( also known as " bubbles " or " info nuggets ")-- small enclosed areas of the screen containing facts about the band or artist, such as career highlights, discography, biographical details, quotes, and anecdotes.

In February 1996, VH1 again hit it big with the premiere of the first of the network's flagship shows, VH1 Storytellers.

Stipe was once very close to fellow singer Natalie Merchant and has recorded a few songs with her, including one titled " Photograph " which appeared on a pro-choice benefit album titled Born to Choose, and they appeared live with Peter Gabriel singing Gabriel's single " Red Rain " at the 1996 VH1 Honors.

* VH1 Storytellers, a 1996 television music series

Behind the Music came to be after Paul Gallagher and George Moll produced a one-hour special entitled Dying in Vein which first aired on VH1 in December 1996.

Bourret has appeared on Friday Night's All Wright as well as several award shows, including the European MTV awards and the World Music Awards, the British National Television Awards in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and several series for the television channels VH1 and E!

The 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards, Divas Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show ( aired in syndication ), several episodes of the Brady Bunch ( aired on Nick at Nite in 2001, effectively named " Pop Up Brady "), ABC's Original TGIF 1998 and 1999 line-up's season premieres and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ( December 2000 ) also got the Pop Up treatment.

In 1996, with all previous Valiant Universe ( VH1 ) titles canceled, Fabian Nicieza, a former editor and writer from Marvel Comics, was hired as senior vice-president and editor-in-chief and given the task of revamping Valiant Comics properties.

The footage was taken from a recording session in 1996 at London's VH1 Studios.

* VH1 Fashion Awards ( VH1 ) 1998, 1997 & 1996

All that was left to work with were recordings from a live performance of an early version of the song at the VH1 Witness show on April 28, 1996.