Demolition of the site's landmark blue gasometer in 1996, and the subsequent cleanup operation, has created the largest brownfield site in Europe.

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.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

In 1996, STATS, Inc., a major statistical provider to fantasy sports companies, won a court case, along with Motorola, on appeal against the NBA in which the NBA was trying to stop STATS from distributing in game score information via a special wireless device created by Motorola.

In 1996, Neil Robertson, Daniel P. Sanders, Paul Seymour, and Robin Thomas created a quadratic time algorithm, improving on a quartic algorithm based on Appel and Haken ’ s proof (; ).

Regulation: The National Communications Authority ( NCA ), an independent regulator, was created in 1997, deriving its statutory framework from the NCA Act 1996.

After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former archnemesis, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

Critical Mass was created in 1996 when The Right Stuf made a deal with Manga Entertainment to release an unedited edition of Violence Jack, which they deemed too intense for their normal line.

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.

* In Macedonia, 84 municipalities ( opštini ; singular: opština ) were established in 2004, reduced from 123 created in 1996.

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s culminated in the constitutional reform of 1996, which created a new bicameral legislature with expanded, although still limited, powers.

The 1996 reauthorization also created the non-profit National Film Preservation Foundation, which is loosely affiliated with the National Film Preservation Board, but the private-sector Foundation ( NFPF ) and federal Board ( NFPB ) are separate, legally distinct entities.

In 1996, the NBA created a women's league, the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

In 1996, " Weird Al " Yankovic created a parody of the Presidents ' " Lump ", titled " Gump ".

There was little communication between New York City Police Department and fire department commands even though an Office of Emergency Management ( OEM ) had been created in 1996 in part to provide such coordination.

In 1996, Gilliam directed the stage show Slava's Diabolo created and staged by Russian clown artist Slava Polunin.

In 1996, with the premiere of the anime series, Messiah Knight — The Vision of Escaflowne was created.

It was created in 1996, and closed in August 2006.

In addition to conceptual art, Ono has also created participatory art, including her 1996 project entitled " Wish Tree " in Japan.

In 1996, Pavel Curtis, who had built MUDs at PARC, created PlaceWare, a server that simulated a one-to-many auditorium, with side chat between " seat-mates ", and the ability to invite a limited number of audience members to speak.

Together with the release of " Strange Romance " at the end of 1996, Psyche created an accessible sound to bring listeners up to date with the personal events described in Darrin's lyrics.

It was created by Shinji Mikami as a survival horror video game series that was initiated with Resident Evil in 1996.

In 1996, the Yangon City Development Committee created a Yangon City Heritage List of old buildings and structures in the city that cannot be modified or torn down without approval.

In 1996, he co-composed the soundtrack to Front Mission: Gun Hazard and created the entire score for DynamiTracer.

Early warning signs began to surface in 1996, when Eric Harris first created a private website on America Online.

In 1996, Love starred in The People vs. Larry Flynt and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

Jones ' final Looney Tunes cartoon was From Hare to Eternity in 1996, which starred Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, with Greg Burson voicing Bugs.

In contrast to Zeffirelli, whose Hamlet was heavily cut, Kenneth Branagh adapted, directed, and starred in a 1996 version containing every word of Shakespeare's play, combining the material from the F1 and Q2 texts.

In 1996 he starred in the feature comedy Down Periscope.

Similarly, the ace of the 1986 team, Dwight Gooden, threw his no-hitter for the Yankees ( in 1996 ), and David Cone, who starred for the Mets from 1987 – 1992, threw a perfect game later in his career, also as a Yankee.

A loose American remake of the show starred Bill Cosby and was simply titled Cosby ; it ran from 1996 to 2000.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

Reno has starred in such high-profile American films as French Kiss ( 1995 ) with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline, Mission: Impossible ( 1996 ) with Tom Cruise, Ronin ( 1998 ) with Robert De Niro, and Godzilla ( 1998 ).

In the mid-1990s, Hoffman starred in — and was deeply involved in the production of — David Mamet's American Buffalo ( also 1996 ), and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford.

In the 1990s, after playing the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt starred in the series Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Barb Wire ( 1996 ), starred Pamela Anderson ( of Baywatch fame ), who performs a wet striptease.

In 1996, he starred in Liv Ullmann's Private Confessions ( Enskilda samtal ).

In 1996 he did a major role in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's film, From Dusk Till Dawn, and in 1997 he starred in the crime drama Cop Land, which also starred Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro.

She subsequently starred in another Ngema musical Mama ( 1996 ), which toured Europe and Australia.

The latter featured in Mark Greenstreet's 1996 comedy film ' Caught In The Act ' which starred Sara Crowe, Annette Badland, Nadia Sawalha, Paul Shelly and Leslie Phillips.

In 1996, Gainsbourg starred as the title character in Jane Eyre, a film adaption of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel.

Curtin later starred in the hit series 3rd Rock from the Sun ( 1996 – 2001 ), playing the role of Dr. Mary Albright.

DeVito and Perlman also starred together in his 1996 film Matilda, based on Roald Dahl's children's novel.

* The movie Donnie Brasco, which starred Johnny Depp and Al Pacino, was filmed partially in Clifton in 1996.

Costner then starred in the golf comedy Tin Cup ( 1996 ) for Ron Shelton, who had previously directed him in Bull Durham.

In 1996, Whitman guest starred in the episode " The One Where Rachel Quits " of the sitcom Friends.

In television, she has starred in the sitcom Ink ( 1996 ) with her husband Ted Danson, and co-starred in the television miniseries Gulliver's Travels ( 1996 ) with Danson.