Category: Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics

In the summer of 1996, the RNLI decided to station a lifeboat at Kildownet.

* 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.

Ajax plays at the Amsterdam Arena, which opened in 1996.

* 1996 – Suspected " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

:* Recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City in August 1994, December 1995 and March 1996

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.

In 1996 Charlie Ellington at Cambridge University showed that vortices created by many insects ’ wings and non-linear effects were a vital source of lift ; vortices and non-linear phenomena are notoriously difficult areas of hydrodynamics, which has made for slow progress in theoretical understanding of insect flight.

In 1996 Netscape requested that the authors of Berkeley DB improve and extend the library, then at version 1. 86, to suit Netscape's requirements for an LDAP server and for use in the Netscape browser.

In 1996, it was mentioned that Mumy was also reunited with Harris, again, at a Walt Disney convention in Orlando, Florida.

He lectured in statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus as an assistant professor ( 1994 – 1996 ) and associate professor ( 1997 – 2005 ).

By the start of the 1996 season, Fitzroy was almost at the end of its financial tether.

Older editions of the CIA World Factbook, going back to 1989, country rankings constructed from CIA data, and additional country information from other sources are available at the Countries of the World website, which was begun in 1996.

He died of a heart attack in Bangui on 3 November 1996 at age 75.

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

In 2000, the same policy was applied to people who have resided in France, for at least three months from January 1980 to December 1996.

The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

The Swiss Blutspendedienst SRK precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least six months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

After Cobain committed suicide in 1994, Love began using heroin again regularly, but quit using the drug in 1996 at the insistence of director Miloš Forman when she landed a starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

In 1996, Love began a relationship with actor Edward Norton and were at one point engaged, but separated in 1999.

It has been reported by defectors and refugees that, at the height of the North Korean famine in 1996, cannibalism was sometimes practiced in North Korea.

The team held training camp at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio, through the 1996 preseason.

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.

George's mother changed her schedule as a flight attendant ( at the request of Eddie's agent, Lamont Smith ) to be in San Antonio for Eddie's signing of his first NFL contract on July 19, 1996.

Shortly before he introduced his FY 1997 budget request in March 1996, Perry warned that the United States might have to give up the strategy of preparing for two major regional conflicts if the armed forces suffered further reductions.

On 20 August 1996, Rude Awakening bassist Robert Ryder held " A Celebration of the Life of Philip Lynott " at the Palace in Hollywood, California at the request of Lynott's mother, Philomena, to commemorate both Phil Lynott's birthday and the tenth year of his passing.

23 % of sexually active young women in a 1996 Seventeen magazine poll admitted to having had unprotected sex with a partner who did not use a condom, while 70 % of girls in a 1997 PARADE poll claimed it was embarrassing to buy birth control or request information from a doctor.

The operation ended officially on 31 December 1996 at the request of the Government of Turkey who wanted to improve relations with Iran and Iraq.

Berkeley DB is a widely used and freely-licensed database software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4. 4BSD Unix, and developers from that project founded Sleepycat in 1996 to provide commercial support after a request by Netscape to provide new features in the database software.

In response to the food crisis of the mid-1990s and at the request of the North Koreans, Mercy Corps began work in 1996.

This includes the right to a minimum wage of £ 6. 19 for over 21 year olds under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, 28 paid holidays, and no longer working hours than one consents to under the Working Time Regulations 1998, the right to leave for child care, and the right to request flexible working patterns under the Employment Rights Act 1996.

The right to make the request is contained in ERA 1996 section 80F, and despite the fact that employers may decline the request, statistics show that under the obligation to consider, employers grant requests in 80 per cent of cases.

His request was largely ignored by both the Nationalist and Communist governments, and he was persuaded to abandon the petition by his stepmother and his father's widow, Soong May-ling in November 1996.

His career breakthrough came in 1996 with his first Dead or Alive game, a game based on Sega Model 2 hardware ( Virtua Fighter ) created in response to Tecmo management's request.

Stallman's and the FSF's efforts to include " GNU " in the name started around 1994, but were reportedly mostly via private communications ( such as the abovementioned request to Debian ) until 1996.

The ICJ considered the WHO's request, in a case known as the Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict ( General List No. 93 ), and also known as the WHO Nuclear Weapons case, between 1993 and 1996.

* At the request of the Smithsonian Institution, his Russian " SOKOL " space suit was donated to the National Air & Space Museum ( 1996 )

1996: Rock the Vote created the first telephone voter registration system, 1-800-REGISTER ( later creating 1-800-ROCK-VOTE ) to provide information regarding local elections offices and how to find the appropriate polling place or request an absentee ballot.

In 1995, the Athletic Drug Testing Center was established at the request of the Ministry of Education and went into operation in 1996 during a national sporting event when gold medal winners were tested for banned drugs.

The 30 September 1996 episode of Bruce's Price Is Right, the Bruce Forsyth remake of Crowther's The Price Is Right, was dedicated to Crowther at the request of Forsyth himself, according to the ITV continuity announcement.

Needham had often expressed to Globe and Mail staff that he wished for his death to be announced to the public with a notice reading " Richard J. Needham's tiresome and boring column will not appear today, because he is dead "; even though Needham had retired more than ten years before his 1996 death, his request was honored ( albeit with a note explaining that it had been Needham's idea ).

In March 1996, responding to increasing political pressure ( especially from the Nyingma school, who threatened to withdraw from the TGIE ), the Dalai Lama announced that Dorje Shugden was " an evil spirit " detrimental to the cause of a free Tibet, and so he began to request that those who worshiped Shugden no longer attend tantric initiations from him, which " effectively placed them outside the fold of the exiled Tibetan polity.

Upon his return he met with his wife who submitted a written request for a divorce from her father on September 16, 1996.

At one point, circa 1996, the precursor to Bagism. com, a website focused on John Lennon, was sent a cease and desist request from the representatives of John Lennon's estate over copyrighted John Lennon content.

On August 1, the Marin County Superior Court denied the request for an injunction, since the District had not approved the program About 1996, Tam initiated the Condom Availability Program, which provides free condoms to students who have received parental permission and completed a training session.

At her request, he also arranged and orchestrated " Theme of Bahamut Lagoon ~ Opening " for the bonus disc of the original soundtrack to Bahamut Lagoon ( 1996 ).