The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

Probably more representative of British humour were the working class comedies Brassed Off ( 1996 ) and The Full Monty ( 1997 ).

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.

Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

* 1904 – Charles Oatley, British electrical engineer ( d. 1996 )

Sideline hit in a match Standard Athletic Club vs. British School of Paris ( 1996 )

* 1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )

* 1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

At the 1996 British Comedy Awards the show won Top Channel 4 Sitcom Award, McLynn took the Top TV Comedy Actress award.

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.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Manx pounds per US $ 1: 0. 6092 ( January 2000 ), 0. 6180 ( 1999 ), 0. 6037 ( 1998 ), 0. 6106 ( 1997 ), 0. 6403 ( 1996 ), 0. 6335 ( 1995 ); the Manx pound is at par with the British pound

* 1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor

In 1996 European governments banned British beef over claims that it was infected with " Mad Cow Disease " – the British government withheld cooperation with the EU over the issue, but did not succeed in getting the ban lifted.

* Fryde, E. B., D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy ( eds ) ( 1996 ) Handbook of British Chronology, third edition.

Lindow Man on display at the British Museum in 1996.

* The monastery and monks of Lindisfarne are an important part of British author / broadcastor Melvyn Bragg's epic, historically based novel " Credo " published in 1996.

* 1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease ( Bovine spongiform encephalopathy ).

Michael Bentine CBE ( 26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons.

* 1996 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( b. 1922 )

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

British author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ).

High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China ( 1996 ) complete text online free

The value of exports amounted to US $ 1. 9 billion in 1996, but the contribution to the trade balance was only US $ 520 million because many of the basic materials for the free zones had to be imported and paid for.

In September 1996, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras opened free trade talks with Mexico.

Although tariff cuts that were expected in July 1996 were delayed until 1997, the Government of El Salvador is committed to a free and open economy.

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.

Family Planning Programme made target free from 1st April 1996

The October 20, 1996 presidential, legislative, and mayoral elections also were judged free and fair by international observers and by the groundbreaking national electoral observer group Ética y Transparencia ( Ethics and Transparency ) despite a number of irregularities, due largely to logistical difficulties and a baroquely complicated electoral law.

In 1996, there was a port of Quake to Linux by an id software employee working in his free time.

After the 1996 season, Clemens left Boston via free agency and joined the Toronto Blue Jays.

After the 1996 – 97 season, Mark Messier signed a free agent contract with the Vancouver Canucks, ending the brief reunion of Messier and Gretzky after just one season.

* July 21, 1996 – Signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers.

The panel says that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.

In Philadelphia on June 12, 1996, a panel of federal judges blocked part of the CDA, saying it would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.

President Meri was re-elected in free and fair indirect elections in August and September in 1996.

The weight was reduced to for the 1996 Olympic Games, after a study demonstrated that both the horse's arc over a fence became shallower and the leading leg took a great deal of extra force on landing when the horse was carrying dead weight than when free from the burden.

James Wilson Rouse ( April 26, 1914-April 9, 1996 ), founder of The Rouse Company, was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist.

The December 1995 and February 1996 elections were judged free and fair by domestic and international observers.

In 1996, the opposition fully contested the presidential and parliamentary elections, which were described as peaceful, free, and transparent by domestic and international observers.

It campaigned in 1996 for a new name for Fishkill, New York, and in April 2003 offered free veggie burgers to Hamburg, New York, if it would call itself Veggieburg.

The neurotic cannot unlearn, and, therefore, lacks creativity is unable to accomplish this normal detachment process … Owing to fear and guilt generated in the assertion of his own autonomy, he is unable to free himself, and instead remains suspended upon some primitive level of his evolution "( Rank, 1996, p. 270 ).

* webmail service providers ( such as Hotmail and RocketMail ) emerged in 1996 as a free service to the general public, and rapidly gained in popularity.

In late 1996, Frontier 4. 1 had become " an integrated development environment that lends itself to the creation and maintenance of Web sites and management of Web pages sans much busywork ," and by the time Frontier 4. 2 was released in January 1997, the software was firmly established in the realms of website management and CGI scripting, allowing users to " taste the power of large-scale database publishing with free software.

Once free, he was a key part of an effort to forge stronger ties between the UDA / UFF and the LVF, a small breakaway faction of the UVF founded in 1996 by the charismatic Billy Wright and following his killing, commanded by Mark " Swinger " Fulton, with whom Adair was on good terms.

Vajpayee promoted pro-business, free market reforms to reinvigorate India's economic transformation and expansion that were started by the former PM Narasimha Rao but stalled after 1996 due to unstable governments and the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Ettrich founded KDE in 1996, when he proposed on Usenet a " consistent, nice looking free desktop-environment " for Unix-like systems using Qt as its widget toolkit.