* Kao Meng-Ting ( 高孟定 ), who won a seat in Yunlin County for Green Party Taiwan in the ROC National Assembly in 1996, but later defected to the Democratic Progressive Party.

Amid squabbles with Chart Thai leader Banharn Silpa-archa, Sanoh then defected to the New Aspiration Party, which won the 1996 elections.

When the ferry MV Bukoba sank in Lake Victoria in 1996, taking al-Qaeda co-founder Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri with it, Mohammed was one of the individuals sent to the scene by al-Qaeda, attempting to verify that Abu Ubaidah was dead, and had not in fact defected.

Another SVR officer who defected to Britain in 1996 described details about several thousand Russian agents and intelligence officers, some of them " illegals " who live under deep cover abroad Recently caught Russian high-profile agents in US are Aldrich Hazen Ames, Harold James Nicholson, Earl Edwin Pitts, Robert Philip Hanssen and George Trofimoff.

In 1996 Song was reported to have defected to the West, but intelligence officials in South Korea denied the story.

But by 1996, KQKS would receive a major jolt when their air staffers defected to another new rhythmic contemporary hit radio station, KJMN ( JAM ' N 92. 1 ) and began attacking them on-air and on the streets.

A 1996 British Journal for the History of Science article cites James F. Donnelly for mentioning a 1839 reference to chemical engineering in relation to the production of sulfuric acid.

* James S. Free ( 1908 – 1996 ), American journalist

The Harry Potter series was filmed at the studios, whilst the 1996 James Bond film GoldenEye was also filmed there.

He played car-accident fetishist James Ballard in the controversial Canadian film Crash in 1996 and assassin Lee Woods in 2 Days in the Valley.

Also, FBI informant Richard Fino tied Kemp to James Cosentino just weeks before the 1996 election.

St. James Press, 1996.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

* 1996 – U. S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.

* Stramel, James ( 1996 ).

Recent English-language spy films are The Bourne Identity ( 2002 ), Mission: Impossible ( 1996 ); Munich ( 2005 ), Syriana ( 2005 ), The Constant Gardener ( 2005 ) and Casino Royale ( 2006 ), a relaunching of the James Bond series.

Youth Speaks, a non-profit literary organization founded in 1996 by James Kass, patterned the slam competitions at the annual Brave New Voices festival after that seminal Taos event.

Youth Speaks, a non-profit literary organization founded in 1996 by James Kass, serves as one of the largest youth poetry organizations in America, offering opportunities for youth ages 13 – 19 to express their ideas on paper and stage.

* Witek, Rich ; Montanaro, James ( 1996 ).

* Hein, James L. ( 1996 ) Theory of Computation.

Burton collaborated with Selick again for James and the Giant Peach ( 1996 ), which Burton co-produced.

The structure of DNA was determined in 1953 by James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, following by developing techniques which allow to read DNA sequences and culminating in starting the Human Genome Project ( not finished in the 20th century ) and cloning the first mammal in 1996.

* Henslin, James M. ( 1996 ).

In 1996, Peter collaborated on an album called Two Man Band with James Lee Stanley.

By the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show ( in 1996, he admitted that he had become tired and wanted to do other things ), as had Kam Fong.

* James Belich, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from the Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century ( 1996 ) and Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from 1880 to the Year 2000 ( 2001 ).

In February 1996, when Coxon and James were absent for a lip-synced Blur performance broadcast on Italian television, they were replaced by a cardboard cutout and a roadie, respectively.

Kill Doctor Lucky is a humorous board game designed by James Ernest and released in 1996 by Cheapass Games.

* Fire and Dust ( 1996 ), by James Alan Gardner

( 1960 ), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1962 ), Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line ( 1976 ), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Jonathan Larson's Rent ( 1996 ), and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal ( 2010 ).

The 1996 Belarus Referendum resulted in the amendment of the constitution that took key powers off the parliament.

Since the rejection of the revised Albanian Constitution during the 1994 Referendum, the foreign relations between Albania, the European Union and the United States began to deteriorate due to autocratic manners of the President Berisha in the matters of the state, but they also were sceptical about the abilities of the lidership of the Socialist Party to govern the country, in case the Socialist Party were to win the Parliamentary Elections of 1996.

It was revealed in 1996 that the European Foundation was being funded by Sir James Goldsmith the then leader of the British Referendum Party.

** The society won UL 1996 Society event of the year for its " Irish Divorce Referendum Debate " which was broadcast by NBC in the United States.

In 1996, Abdalá Bucaram, from the populist Ecuadorian Roldosista Party, won the presidency on a platform that promised populist economic and social reforms.

In the general elections of June 1996 the Democratic Party tried to win an absolute majority and manipulated the results.

Between 1996 and 1998, there was a period of political flux with the government being formed first by the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) followed by a left-leaning United Front coalition.

Although government policies supporting large military and internal security forces and allocating resources to key supporters of the Ba ' ath Party government hurt the economy, implementation of the United Nations ' corruption-plagued oil-for-food program in December 1996 was to have improved conditions for the average Iraqi citizen.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

Among the 1996 Republican Party candidates, both Steve Forbes and Phil Gramm proposed the flat tax.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

The 1996 elections resulted in the election of the Labour Party, by 8, 000 votes, to replace the Nationalists who had won in 1987 and 1992.

The main opposition party was the Democratic Party or DP, which controlled a governing coalition from 1996 to 2000.

In February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) began a violent insurgency in more than 50 of the country's 75 districts.

* 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar ( a leader of the True Path Party, DYP ).

In the 1996 general elections the Natural Law Party ran candidates only in the Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol region, who won 8, 298 votes for the Chamber of Deputies and 5, 842 for the Senate ( about 1 % on a regional basis, 0. 2 % in the whole country ).

A 70-page Natural Law Party paper was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments.

The Natural Law Party ( United States ) ran John Hagelin as its presidential candidate in 1992, 1996, and 2000.

Keating immediately resigned as Labor Party leader, and resigned from Parliament a little over a month later, on 23 April 1996.

Promises of a return to civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio, who handed power over to Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, of the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ), after the conclusion of elections in early 1996.

* Raving Loony Party Favourites ( Compilation, 1996 )

In the 1996 Nicaraguan election, Ortega and Ramírez both campaigned unsuccessfully as presidential candidates on behalf of their respective parties, with Ortega receiving 43 % of the vote while Arnoldo Alemán of the Constitutional Liberal Party received 51 %.

McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military, but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.

The U. S. version of the Natural Law Party ran John Hagelin as its presidential candidate in 1992, 1996, and 2000.

In 1996, the Libertarian Party became the first third party to earn ballot status in all 50 states two presidential elections in a row.

Pat Buchanan threatened in 1996 to run as the U. S. Taxpayers Party candidate if Bob Dole chose a pro-choice running mate.

The current President of the Socialist Republic, Trương Tấn Sang, was directly elected from the provinces at the 8th Party Congress, held 1996.

** Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party ( 1992 –) and Prime Minister of Malta ( 1996 – 1998 )

* January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia.