* 1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.

On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

However, progress in EU-Belarus relations stalled in 1996 after serious setbacks to the development of democracy, and the Drazdy conflict.

Similarly, the USAID phased out a long-standing bilateral partnership with Botswana in 1996, after successful programs emphasizing education, training, entrepreneurship, environmental management, and reproductive health.

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.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

Not long after, in 1996, Karmal died from liver cancer.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

Many of the Yakoma soldiers who left the country after the mutinies in 1996 – 1997 have now returned and must also be reintegrated into the army.

In the Czech Republic, anyone who spent more than six months in the UK or France between the years 1980 and 1996 or received transfusion in the UK after the year 1980 is not allowed to donate blood.

After the Panthers ' success in 1996, Capers led the Panthers through two disappointing seasons: a 7 – 9 season in 1997, and a 4 – 12 season in 1998 which resulted in Capers being fired after four seasons with the team.

Sagan taught a course on critical thinking at Cornell University until he died in 1996 from pneumonia, a few months after finding that he was in remission of myelodysplastic syndrome.

Atkins continued performing in the 1990s, but his health declined after being diagnosed again with cancer in 1996.

The first clash occurred in 1996 after a nearly two-months stand-off.

Star receiver Michael Irvin was suspended by the league for the first five games of 1996 following a drug-related arrest ; he came back after the Cowboys started the season 2-3 ; they finished 10-6 and won the NFC East title, but were eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs 26-17 by the second-year Carolina Panthers.

The rivalry cooled with the decline of the Cowboys after 1996.

The phrase " Doom clone | Doom clone " was initially popular to describe the style of gameplay in Doom-like games, but after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "

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

In 1996, a man who had been seen in Dublin wearing her photograph around his neck, stabbed himself after being ejected from her parents ' pub in Gweedore, County Donegal.

* 1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.

Relations deteriorated after the Taliban took power in 1996.

Nineteen-year-old Fauziya Kasinga, a member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, was granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape FGM, setting a precedent in U. S. immigration law because FGM was for the first time accepted as a form of persecution.

Unlike Alan Jackson, who refused to return to the UK after being treated in a similar manner by the press, Brooks returned in 1996 for more sold-out concerts, although this time his media appearances were mostly restricted to country radio and interviews with magazines.

The Haitian Ministry of Economy and Finance designed the Haiti economic reforms of 1996 to rebuild the economy of Haiti after significant downturns suffered in the previous years.

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.

As the influential result of his position as the chief cartoon artist for Punch ( published 1841 – 1992, 1996 – 2002 ), John Tenniel, through satirical, often radical and at times vitriolic images of the world, for five decades was and remained Great Britain ’ s steadfast social witness to the sweeping national changes in that nation ’ s moment of political and social reform.

His son Mercer Ellington, who had already been handling all administrative aspects of his father's business for several decades, led the band until his own death in 1996.

For its first four decades in the National Museum of Natural History, the Hope Diamond lay in its necklace inside a glass-fronted safe as part of the gems and jewelry gallery, except for a few brief excursions: a 1962 exhibition to the Louvre ; the 1965 Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg, South Africa ; and two visits back to Harry Winston's premises in New York City, once in 1984, and once for a 50th anniversary celebration in 1996.

The LSE's campus went through a renewal under former Director Anthony Giddens ( 1996 – 2003 ), with the redevelopment of Connaught and Clement Houses on the Aldwych, and the purchase of buildings including the George IV public house, which had been nestled amongst the campus for decades, but is now owned by LSE.

Unlike the rest of the country, however, Prohibition was not completely repealed in Williamson in 1933 ; this didn't occur until more than six decades later, in 1996.

Center Benwood used to be hit very hard by the devastating floods of the Ohio River, but a flood wall was constructed along Water Street ( the street that runs along the banks of the Ohio River ) in 1982, thus protecting that section of Benwood from the river floods seen in the last three decades ( 1990, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2005 and 2011 ).

The four Māori electorates were held by Rātana-affiliated members of Labour for decades: until 1963 for the Eastern Maori electorate, 1980 for Northern Maori, and 1996 for Western and Southern Maori electorates.

In addition to mainstay Jules Feiffer, whose cartoon ran for decades in the paper until its cancellation in 1996, well-known cartoonists featured in the paper have included R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Stan Mack, Mark Alan Stamaty, Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Ward Sutton, Ruben Bolling and currently M. Wartella.

The club ran into financial difficulties in the 1980s after decades of poor on-field performance and was forced to merge its playing operations with the Brisbane Bears at the end of the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions, the latter of which won three consecutive premierships between 2001 and 2003.

Both Raytheon and AGES had been vying for the contract, which Raytheon had held for decades but which AGES won in 1996.

South Africa hosted the 20th ACN competition in 1996, marking their first ever appearance after a decades long ban was lifted with the end of apartheid in the country and a failed attempt to qualify in 1994.

Finally, in 1996, Bruner wrote another book, The Culture of Education, reassessing the state of educational practices three decades after he had begun his educational research.

The track has been a UK Top Twenty hit for Numan in three successive decades: on its original release in 1979 ( making number one ); in 1987 as the ' E Reg Model ' remix ( making number 16 ); and again in 1996 following its use in an advertisement for Carling Premier beer ( number 17 ).

Two decades later, to speed up services along its Madrid-Valencia conventional line, Renfe ordered ten Pendolini in 1996.

In 1996 the museum suffered yet another serious blow when the Gilbert Collection of Italian mosaics and other decorative objects, promised as an eventual bequest, and parts of which had been on display for decades, was withdrawn.

He is best known for his prolific career of more than two decades with the Atlanta Braves, in which he garnered eight All-Star selections and received the Cy Young Award in 1996.

In the past two decades, the university has expanded back into its original cities as well, with the Advanced Textiles & Manufacturing Center ( 2001, at the former Kerr Mill site ) and Professional and Continuing Education Center ( 2002, in the former Cherry & Webb building ) in Fall River, and the School for Marine Science and Technology ( 1996, adjacent to Fort Rodman ), the Star Store visual arts building ( 2001 ) and a second Center for Professional and Continuing Education ( 2002, one block north on Purchase Street ) in New Bedford.

In the past few decades, the internet has become increasingly important to the decisions made by adult voters: between 1996 and 2002, the number of adults who reported that the internet was significant in their choices increased from about 14 to 20 percent.

After several decades in the second and third tiers of the league system, Odra were promoted to the Polish Ekstraklasa for the first time in 1996.

Over the next two decades it was steadily improved and was renamed CCSM after the CSM ( Climate System Model ) components were introduced in May 1996.

Chris Pettit was Fuld's second-in-command for two decades until November 26, 1996, when he resigned as President and board member.

* H. Krim and M. Viberg, “ Two decades of array signal processing research ”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Magazine, July 1996

After appearing infrequently for several decades, Google has been seen only twice since 1996 ; Snuffy Smith, who was introduced in 1934, is now the comic strip's central character.

In recent decades, several parties besides the ALP and the Coalition have secured significant representation in the Senate, notably the D. L. P ( 1955 – 1974 ); the Australian Democrats ( 1977 – 2007 ); the Greens ( WA ) ( 1990 – present ) and the Australian Greens ( 1996 – present ).